Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Clerical marriage is the practice of allowing clergy to marry, a practice not to be confused with that of allowing married persons to become clergy. Clerical marriage is admitted in Protestantism, Anglicanism, Independent Catholic Churches, Judaism, Islam, and the Japanese sects of Buddhism. The Roman Catholic Church, while allowing married men to be ordained (only exceptionally in its Western form but more commonly in the Eastern Catholic Churches), also excludes clerical marriage. Marriage after ordination is also excluded for priests of the Eastern Orthodox and the Oriental Orthodox churches, whose parish clergy are generally married before becoming priests, although unmarried priests are sometimes assigned to parishes.. }
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- Clerical_marriage abstract "Clerical marriage is the practice of allowing clergy to marry, a practice not to be confused with that of allowing married persons to become clergy. Clerical marriage is admitted in Protestantism, Anglicanism, Independent Catholic Churches, Judaism, Islam, and the Japanese sects of Buddhism. The Roman Catholic Church, while allowing married men to be ordained (only exceptionally in its Western form but more commonly in the Eastern Catholic Churches), also excludes clerical marriage. Marriage after ordination is also excluded for priests of the Eastern Orthodox and the Oriental Orthodox churches, whose parish clergy are generally married before becoming priests, although unmarried priests are sometimes assigned to parishes.".