In the Catholic Church, is a Bishop allowed to be married?

Answer 1

Not currently.

An exception might be a married Anglican priest who converted to Catholicism was ordained a bishop. I don't think this has happened yet.

This idea of a celibate clergy came from the Jews, John the Baptist, Jesus, and the Apostle Paul.

The Jews. The Talmud argues that a person whose “soul is bound up with the Torah and is constantly occupied with it” may remain celibate (Maimonides, Laws of Marriage 15.3). For example, Yahweh ordered the prophet Jeremiah not to marry (Jeremiah 16:1-4). Moreover, the Essenes was a group that was active in Jesus’ time that practiced celibacy and thought by most scholars to be the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

John the Baptist and Jesus are both believed to have been celibate for their entire lives. Some scholars believe that the example of the Essenes influenced either or both Jesus and John the Baptist in their celibacy.

The Apostle Paul is explicit about his celibacy (see 1 Cor. 7). There is also evidence in the gospel of Matthew for the practice of celibacy among at least some early Christians, in the famous passage about becoming “eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven” (Matt. 19:12).

The concept took many twists and turns over the years and will probably take a few more before Christ returns in glory.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

No, the early persecutions, the recommendations of Jesus and the Apostles on celebacy and the freedom that it provides quickly brought an end to married bishops. Nonetheless, the last early Christian community with bishops who are direct successors to the apostles to have married bishops just recently ended the practice in the last few years. It was a practical reform to the problems it created and it was the only part of the Catholic or Orthodox Churches that still allowed it. Their community decided after two thousand years that they were better off with a celebate episcopate.

Answer 3

No Bishops are not allowed to be married in the Catholic Church.

Priests and Deacons who were married prior to Ordination in the Eastern Catholic churches can remain married.

In the Western or Roman rite there are a few married Catholic priest converts, very few!

Married men who are Ordained Deacons in the Western or Roman rite can remain married after Ordination but cannot marry after they are Ordained

Answer 4

No, none of the clergy are allowed to be married. Married men can become deacons, though

Married Lutheran and Episcopal priests who convert to Catholicism can become priests and remain married. There are over 100 married catholic priest in America

Answer 5

A simple serious question resulted to whynotaskdon bashing the Catholic Church.

Here's my answer. NO.

Celibacy was already practised in the early Church. That's a statement easy to prove but I challenge whynotaskdon to quote just one early christian document proving the early church didn't practise it.

Answer 6

No never, neither in the Eastern rites where priests are allowed to be married, bishops are always celibate.

Answer 7

NO.
No marriage for;

The poop,
Cardinals,
Archbishops,
Bishops,
Priests,
Nuns,
Monks.

It makes them all more ""portable"" and much lower cost to
maintain so even more money for the Vatican Banks)

Answer 8

No, catholic clergy can not marry. they do have carte blanche to Alter boys (and they do).

Answer 9

No not at all that is why there is all the sexual scandal but then there is another sin isn't it.

Answer 10

I don't think so... but apparently he is allowed to rape children.