Friday, November 8, 2019

750 Eastern Rite Priests in USA as of 2014

​​Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2014/06/07/us/catholic-and-orthodox-officials-endorse-marriage-for-some-priests.amp.html (6 Nov. 2019)

Excerpt:
There are about 39,000 Catholic priests in the United States, of whom about ​750 are Eastern Rite priests. ​Some Eastern Rite priests are already married, in most cases because they were married and ordained overseas and then immigrated to the United States.

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