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Need I say moreLewis W said:39 Popes Married
Women Priests in the Early Catholic Church
And much, much more in this link.
http://johnshuster.com/thirtynine_popes.htm
And Peter was never a Pope
http://www.bible.ca/cath-peter=pope.htm
First of all Peter was not the first Pope or ever a Pope. But here is a list of Popes that were married, when they became Popes.
The quick answer to this question is "yes." However, there were none who married after they became pope.
There's not much detailed information about the early popes. For many years of the Church's history, celibacy was considered optional.
Based on the customs of the times, it is assumed by many that like Peter, most of the Apostles were married and had families. Author Richard O'Brien writes in Lives of the Popes that "from Paul's reference to the fact that Peter and the other apostles took their wives along on their apostolic journeys, (1 Corin 9:5) the apostles did not 'put away' their wives."
In the Vatican document, Priestly celibacy in patristics and in the history of the Church, Roman Cholij writes, "It is clear from the New Testament (Mk 1:29-31; Mt 8:14-15; Lk 4:38-39; 1 Tim 3:2, 12; Tit 1:6) that at least the Apostle Peter had been married, and that bishops, presbyters and deacons of the Primitive Church were often family men."
"It is also clear from epigraphy, the testimony of the Fathers, synodal legislation, papal decretals and other sources that in the following centuries, a married clergy, in greater or lesser numbers was a normal feature of the life of the Church. Even married popes are known to us."
Mandatory celibacy was enforced because there was so much political and economic power attached to the papacy especially during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The Church has adopted celibacy as a matter of discipline, not as a matter of doctrine.
St. Felix III (II) and St. Hormisdas
St. Felix III (II)
Birthdate:
St. Felix was born in Rome.
Death:
St. Felix died on March 1, 492. He was buried in St. Paul's Basilica, in a family crypt close to his father, his wife, and his children.
Background:
St. Felix was an Italian from Rome. He was the son of a priest in an aristocratic family.
Marriage:
St. Felix III was a widower when he was selected as pope.
Children:
St. Felix had two children who are said to be the ancestors of Agapitus I and Gregory I also known as Saint Gregory the Great.
Selected 48th Pope:
March 13, 483
Feast Day:
March 1
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St. Hormisdas
Birthdate:
Unknown.
Death:
St.
St. Silverius
Birthdate:
He was an Italian, from Frosinone, and the son of Pope Hormisdas.
Death:
St. Silverius supposedly died on December 2, 537.
Occupation:
Subdeacon.
Marriage:
That St. Silverius was married to Antonia is debated.
Selected 58th Pope:
June 8, 536; deposed on March 11, 537 and exiled to Patara. He abdicated on November 11, 537 while on the island of Palmaria in the Gulf of Gaeta.
Feast Day:
June 20
St. Agatho
Birthdate:
He was born in Sicily, c. 577.
Death:
St. Agatho died on January 10, 681 in Rome, Italy.
Occupation:
Agatho was a successful businessman before he became a monk at Saint Hermes' monastery in Palermo, Sicily.
Marriage:
Reportedly, Agatho had been married for 20 years before entering the monastery.
Children:
One daughter.
Selected 79th Pope:
June 27, 678.
Feast Day:
Hadrian II
Birthdate:
Hadrian II also known as Adrian II was born in 792 in Rome, Italy.
Death:
Hadrian died in late 972.
Background:
He came from an aristocratic family.
Occupation:
Cardinal priest.
Marriage:
Hadrian had married Stephania and had a daughter before he became a priest. His wife and daughter were still living when he was selected to be pope and resided with him in the Lateran Palace.
Children:
One daughter, who was carried off, raped, and murdered by former antipope Anastasius's brother, Eleutherius. Her mother was also killed by Eleutherius. He stabbed them both to death.
Selected 107th Pope:
December 14, 867
Boniface IX
Birthdate:
Born Pietro Tomacelli in Naples, Italy c.1350.
Death:
October 1, 1404.
Background:
His family were aristocratic but impoverished.
Occupation:
Cardinal priest.
Marriage:
The tradition is that he dispensed himself from celibacy in order to marry.
Selected 207th Pope:
November 2, 1389.
Clement IV
Birthdate:
Born Guy Foulques (also known as Guide Le Gros) on November 23, c. 1195 at Saint-Gilles on the Rhones in France.
Death:
November 29, 1268 at Viterbo.
Occupation:
Soldier, lawyer, lay jurist, secretary to Louis IX of France, Cardinal bishop.
Marriage:
Yes. When his wife died, Guy took Holy Orders.
Children:
Two daughters.
Selected 184th Pope:
February 5, 1265
Felix V
Birthdate:
Duke Amadeus VIII of Savoy was born December 4, 1383 in Savoy.
Death:
Felix died on January 7, 1451 at Ripaille.
Occupation:
Duke
Marriage:
Felix married Maria of Burgundy.
Children:
One son, Ludwig.
Selected as an Antipope:
October 30, 1439. Served for six years before submitting in 1449 to Nicolas V. He received the title of Cardinal of St. Sabina, and was appointed permanent Apostolic vicar-general for all the states of the house of Savory and for several other dioceses.
Notes:
Felix formed the Order of St. Maurice in Ripaille on the Lake of Geneva.
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39 Popes Married
Women Priests in the Early Catholic Church
And much, much more in this link.
http://johnshuster.com/thirtynine_popes.htm
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: Thanks for posting that. It is a good example of what I say. A few scripture refs here and there. But mostly denials and nay says and personal opinions that the Catholic Church does not match the scriptures. If you read books like "Born Fundamentalist Born Again Catholic", and the three "Surprized by Truth" books and "By What Authority" by Mark Shea, they are full of scriptural quotes about how the Catholic Church does in fact match scripture. Once again thanks Gary. The Surprized by Truth books are full of testimonies of protestant pastors and others whom used scripture and their knowledge of it to come to the Catholic faith. Many of them came toward the Church through the scriptures BEFORE they even talked to a Catholic.