AD 305 - Elvira Synod (19 SPANISH bishops)- 1st time #mandatedcontinence EVER appears in LOCAL council but NOT universal. Thus, MANDATED continence not apostolic. Popes & pre-Elvira councils did NOT require continence before AD 305. The key word is "mandate" or "require" or "obligatory."
AD 325 - UNIVERSAL Council of Nicea REJECTS continence (proposed to bishops of ecumenical Council of Nicea BUT continence is REJECTED); only decreed that once ordained cannot get married after ordination
AD 385 - 1st time EVER a Bishop of Rome, Pope Siricius, requires discipline of continence for married priests and deacons that were already having kids after ordination; BUT does NOT make any claim to apostolic tradition; rejects argument that Levites in OT were having kids; writes that having kids after ordination is giving "heed to impure desires"
AD 390 - LOCAL (not universal) Synod of Carthage affirmed continence
AD 1123 - #First Lateran Council #mandatorycelibacy begins; 1st time EVER a UNIVERSAL Council decrees celibacy (no more ordaining married men as priests in Latin rite)
AD 1952 - #PopePiusXII allows 5 marriedmen as #LatinPriests, #PaulVI, JP2, B16 also allowed. Dispensations/exceptions to mandated celibacy rule and therefore continence granted
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Mandated celibacy decreed from 1123 to 1952 in Roman rite. That is ONLY 829 years of MANDATED celibacy compared to 2,000 years of UNIVERSAL Catholic Church history.
From AD 33 to 385, NO evidence exists of MANDATED continence. That is 352 years of no Popes or UNIVERSAL Councils requiring MANDATED continence.
THEREFORE, we can conclude: (1) MANDATED celibacy is an INNOVATION & (2) MANDATED continence is an INNOVATION.
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