What was Pope/Bishop/Apostle Peter's Wife's name and how many children did he have?

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Does Church tradition know this information?

Do we know anything about the bloodlines of the apostles? Are their relatives still out there somewhere?
 
firstmode said:
Does Church tradition know this information?

Do we know anything about the bloodlines of the apostles? Are their relatives still out there somewhere?
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Not that I have ever heard. I am wrong often, so it might be out there.
 
Now here’s a couple of questions I never thought of. Good questions! Sorry I don’t have the answers to them though. I’m sure someone on here might. You might want to post this question in the Ask an Apostligest Forum too, to see if they might know.
 
Those are very interesting questions. Maybe there is someone on the forum who’s into geneology. I’ve tried to search my own family line and come up with nothing, so…🙂

Except for royalty, tracing family lines back that far is probably impossible. I don’t think they kept those kinds of records. Does anyone know for sure?
 
firstmode said:
Does Church tradition know this information?

Do we know anything about the bloodlines of the apostles? Are their relatives still out there somewhere?
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I do not believe that is anything that the Church would have taken the time to track. Her teaching authority centers around items of faith and morals. Since that information wouldn’t be relevant, I don’t think it would have been studied or tracked.
 
firstmode said:
Does Church tradition know this information?

Do we know anything about the bloodlines of the apostles? Are their relatives still out there somewhere?
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There’s definitely nothing in the capital “T” Tradition of the Church that says anything about the names of any of the Apostle’s wives nor anything about the names of children or if they even had children.

As far as small “t” tradition or pious legends, that I’m less sure about. All I can say is that I have never heard anything anywhere that gave Peter’s wife’s name nor identified whether they had any children (which would be a necessary prerequisite before identifying and tracing any lineage).

I’m hesitant to agree that the information wouldn’t have been relevant or tracked. The Church obviously tracked the succession of the popes and took a great interest in the geneaology of Jesus. Then again, those pieces of information are a little more central to specific Church doctrines. The Church never really tracks the lineage of any of its saints (Although, I hear the contemporary progeny of St. Thomas More has written a book about his family history – they are all still devout Catholics… If martyrdom were to ensure that my family were to remain faithful Catholics for hundreds of years, sign me up!)
 
I think the question is a loaded one…

Yes, Peter had a wife…priests could marry, then the practice for celibacy came into effect. It is not a condition to either proves or disproves the Catholic Church is the true church.

I did read a passage…if you look at Peter’s lifestyle in Acts, he was on the go…and it is assumed he may have begun to live a more celibate life because of the circumstances he encountered day to day…there is little mention of his wife…the same is thought of the rest of the apostles because of the demands of their work.
 
Peter is the only Apostle we know had a wife. Some have suggested that since his mother-in-law lived with him and waited on him after she was healed by Jesus, that he was a widower who had taken in mil in to keep his house for him.

Since we have no records we cannot say which were married and which weren’t. It does seem to me that it would have been a lot to ask of wives to be left alone while their husbands followed a rabbi around the countryside. It is possible Jesus chose unmarried/widowed men because they would be free to follow him. But, that’s just speculation.
 
Yes, and as to previous posts, irrelevant to spreading the faith, development of the Creed, inculturation, worship, dealing with issues of various churches…all in early formation.
 
St. Peter’s wife was the daughter of Aristobulus who was the brother of the Holy Apostle Barnabas, but I don’t know her name. She and St. Peter had 2 children, a son & a daughter. He was the sole provider for them, his mother-in-law & his father, Jonah through his manual labor since he was an uneducated man and his brother Andrew had remained celibate and had left the family to follow St. John the Baptist - although Andrew would return on occasion to help his brother on occasion with his family.

You can get and read “The Lives of the Holy Apostles” Vol. 2 Translated by Reader Isaac E. Lambertsen and Holy Apostles Convent ISBN # 0-944359-00-0 for more information about St. Peter’s life and the lives of all of the Apostles.
firstmode said:
Does Church tradition know this information?

Do we know anything about the bloodlines of the apostles? Are their relatives still out there somewhere?
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In addition to St. Peter having a wife, Sacred Tradition also teaches

St. Jude the Apostle, who was a step-brother of Jesus being the son of St. Joseph from his first wife, was married to Mariam.

The Holy Apostle St. Simon the Zealot’s wedding was recording as the “wedding of Cana” where Jesus performed his first miracle.
Della said:
Peter is the only Apostle we know had a wife. Some have suggested that since his mother-in-law lived with him and waited on him after she was healed by Jesus, that he was a widower who had taken in mil in to keep his house for him.

Since we have no records we cannot say which were married and which weren’t. It does seem to me that it would have been a lot to ask of wives to be left alone while their husbands followed a rabbi around the countryside. It is possible Jesus chose unmarried/widowed men because they would be free to follow him. But, that’s just speculation.
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SingleMomMonica said:
In addition to St. Peter having a wife, Sacred Tradition also teaches

St. Jude the Apostle, who was a step-brother of Jesus being the son of St. Joseph from his first wife, was married to Mariam.

The Holy Apostle St. Simon the Zealot’s wedding was recording as the “wedding of Cana” where Jesus performed his first miracle.
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Of course, you mean in your Sacred Tradition. Sacred Tradition for Catholics does not include such familial details but rather is only the doctrine and dogmas we hold to. 🙂

We would call such information pious legend, not meaning “fairy tale” by legend, but just what the word originally meant–reports that cannot be verified but are thought to be probably true.
 
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