Re: Catholic priests w/ Japanese citizenship

[abe@kaleida.com (Masumi Abe)]

At  6:49 PM 10/17/94 -0700, David Meyer wrote:
>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

I know an American Catholis priest who married, and some Japanese Catholic
priests who married. I also know that even within Catholic, in Eastern
Authodox Catholic, priest has an option to get married, but not bishops.

All cases of foreign Catholic priest got Japanese citizenship, I know of,
are the traditional (single) Catholic priests, at least when they got
accepted as Japanese citizens.

-Masumi
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