Catholic priests w/ Japanese citizenship

[dmeyer@euclid.ucsd.edu (David Meyer)]

On Mon, 17 Oct 94 17:24:55 PDT, abe@kaleida.com (Masumi Abe) wrote:

> I know several Catholic priests in Japan, who used to be foreigners but
> became Japanese citizens with Japanese names. They are, of course, all
> singles.

There are actually a handful of married Catholic priests (something
on the order of 50-70 in the US, I think).  Although there may be others,
one way that this can happen is for an already married Anglican priest to
convert to Catholicism.  Not that that it seems particularly likely that
there are very many Anglican priests who married Japanese women and then
converted to Catholicism, obtaining Japanese citizenship somewhere along
the way!

David Meyer