Pope Paul VI granted a dispensation that allowed Beck to be ordained in Germany as a priest of the Roman Catholic Church. A former Lutheran minister, Father Beck, at 42, was married with two children. He was the first American among a handful of Latin Rite Catholic priests who have received dispensations from the Pope to take Holy orders without a vow of celibacy.
Rev Ernest Adam Beck
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Michigan, USA
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| Death | 14 Nov 1996 (aged 74)
Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, USA
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| Burial | Hampstead, Pender County, North Carolina, USA |
| Plot | Mausoleum |
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26597711 · View Source
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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/1964/05/01/archives/jerseyan-allowed-to-become-priest-and-stay-married.html (27 Jan. 2020)
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NEWARK, April 30 (AP)—A former Lutheran pastor from North Bergen, married and the father of two, has been granted a special dispensation from Pope Paul VI to be ordained a Roman Catholic priest.
The National Catholic Welfare Conference News Service, in an article in the Newark Archdiocesan paper, The Advocate, said no other American had been accorded this privilege.
The dispensation was granted to Ernest Adam Beck, 39 years old, a Detroit native who had been pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in North Bergen. He is married to the former Dorothy Marie Gollin of Teaneck.
According to the news service, Mr. Beck has been given approval to exercise in full the rights, privileges and obligations of marriage, together with the unrestricted exercise of the priesthood.
During the last 12 years in Germany, the news service said, five married former Protestant ministers have been ordained priests under special dispensations granted by the Holy See.
Mr. Beck is expected to be ordained in the diocese of Mainz, Germany, in the near future. He was admitted at the Mainz Diocesan Seminary in 1956, two years after he and his wife had been received into the Roman Catholic Church. He was also a student at the Benedictine Seminary at Conception, Mo., and recently taught at Corpus Christi High School, St. Louis.
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Roman Catholics: The Married Priest
ROMAN CATHOLICS
With his son serving as acolyte, a Detroit man named Ernest Adam Beck was ordained a fortnight ago in Germany as a priest of the Roman Catholic Church. A former Lutheran minister, Father Beck, 42, is married and has two children. He is the first American among a handful of Latin Rite Catholic priests who have received dispensations from the Pope to take holy orders without a vow of celibacy.
Canon law has insisted on priestly celibacy since the Middle Ages, although Eastern-Rite Catholic priests may marry before their ordination. But within the past 13 years, Popes have from time to...
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