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:The [[Orthodox Church]]es allow men who are married to apply for ordination to the priesthood. After ordination, a married priest whose wife dies is not permitted to take another wife; and a never-married man who has been ordained as a priest is not permitted to take a wife. Bishops of both Catholic and Orthodox rites are required to be [[Virginity|virginal]] or [[Celibacy|celibate]] men who have never been married and have never had children, which normally excludes those who never married but who previously fathered children by [[fornication]] and have repented and renounced all illicit sexual activity. <br>Orthodox priests with living wives who apply for acceptance into the Catholic Church as functioning Catholic priests can be granted a dispensation by the [[Pope]], and are freely allowed to serve in Catholic [[diocese]]s as married Catholic priests. As with the Orthodox discipline, when their wives die they may not take another wife.

:The [[Orthodox Church]]es allow men who are married to apply for ordination to the priesthood. After ordination, a married priest whose wife dies is not permitted to take another wife; and a never-married man who has been ordained as a priest is not permitted to take a wife. Bishops of both Catholic and Orthodox rites are required to be [[Virginity|virginal]] or [[Celibacy|celibate]] men who have never been married and have never had children, which normally excludes those who never married but who previously fathered children by [[fornication]] and have repented and renounced all illicit sexual activity. <br>Orthodox priests with living wives who apply for acceptance into the Catholic Church as functioning Catholic priests can be granted a dispensation by the [[Pope]], and are freely allowed to serve in Catholic [[diocese]]s as married Catholic priests. As with the Orthodox discipline, when their wives die they may not take another wife.

:Some conservative and ultraconservative Protestant and Independent churches, such as the [[Churches of Christ]], on the basis of a ''[[sola scriptura]]'' interpretation of the [[King James Only|King James Version]] of the passages of 1&nbsp;Timothy and Titus cited above, teach that preachers and pastors are required to be married, and they warn anyone who has ears to hear that the limiting restriction against marriage by the Orthodox and Catholic Churches for ordained men and for those who voluntarily have vowed themselves to [[celibacy]] for the sake of the kingdom of God (Matthew 19:12), and the discipline of self-restraint in occasional temporary periods of [[fasting]], is a [[demon]]ic absolute violation of 1&nbsp;Timothy 4:1-5 and is one of many proofs that those churches have heeded deceitful spirits and teach doctrines of devils. <br>See [http://biblehub.com/commentaries/1_timothy/4-3.htm commentaries on 1 Timothy 4:3].<br>The [[Cathar]]s and [[Albigensians]] absolutely forbade marriage. Some denominations even now absolutely forbid the eating of particular foods which God has created, for example, [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]].

:Some conservative and ultraconservative Protestant and Independent churches, such as the [[Churches of Christ]], on the basis of a ''[[sola scriptura]]'' interpretation of the [[King James Only|King James Version]] of the passages of 1&nbsp;Timothy and Titus cited above, teach that preachers and pastors are required to be married, and they warn anyone who has ears to hear that the limiting restriction against marriage by the Orthodox and Catholic Churches for ordained men and for those who voluntarily have vowed themselves to [[celibacy]] for the sake of the kingdom of God (Matthew 19:12), and the discipline of self-restraint in occasional temporary periods of [[fasting]], is a [[demon]]ic absolute violation of 1&nbsp;Timothy 4:1-5 and is one of many proofs that those churches have heeded deceitful spirits and teach doctrines of devils. <br>See [http://biblehub.com/commentaries/1_timothy/4-3.htm commentaries on 1 Timothy 4:3].<br>The [[Cathar]]s and [[Albigensians]] absolutely forbade marriage. Some denominations even now absolutely forbid the eating of particular foods which God has created, for example, [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]].<br>The Orthodox and Catholic Churches do not forbid monogamous [[marriage]] or the eating of any particular foods created by God.

:See [[Monogamy]].

:See [[Monogamy]].