Sunday, May 9, 2010

In which branches of Christianity can ordained women enter into marriage?

I use the word 'ordained' to include all the various ranks that a woman might attain within a Christian church. I'm hoping for an encyclopedic answer that covers each of the major branches of the Christian Church. So the headings in your answer might be: Restorationism, Anabaptism, Protestantism, Anglicanism, Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodox and the Assyrian Church.In which branches of Christianity can ordained women enter into marriage?
There is nothing in Christianity that says an ordained woman cannot enter into marriage: all Christian woman ministers are allowed to be married.





Roman Catholic nuns cannot marry, but do you consider them ordained? Roman Catholic priests cannot marry either, although if a man is already married he may become as priest as I understand it.





The bigger question is which branches of Christianity allow married women to be ordained...because some churches only allow men to be leaders.





Several of the groups you list above have male-only priesthood, so male-only ordination.





:-)In which branches of Christianity can ordained women enter into marriage?
It takes God to ordain, man made ordination is just that. So God will not ordain any woman to any high office in the church, True she may play the piano, organ, sing, Be the secretary, or the one that answers the phone, But the Ministry is for man only.
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actually sorry i just read your Q again and i thought it said ';what branches of christianity can a woman be forced into a marriage'; before (damn dyslexia) i'm actually not sure

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