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unusual facts about Priesthood



Ambrosius of Georgia

He graduated from the Tiflis Theological Seminary in 1885 and was ordained to the priesthood in Abkhazia where he served as a priest in Sukhumi, New Athos, and Lykhny, and also delivered courses in the Georgian language.

Andreas Masius

After leaving the priesthood and marrying, in 1559, he settled in Zevenaar and in the last years of his life published several works.

Anna Phersönernas moder

Her husband later lived as a merchant in Stockholm, but returned to the priesthood in 1548, when he was employed in Strängnäs.

Arthur Kreinheder

Kreinheder was ordained to the priesthood in 1956 in Lund by Bishop Anders Nygren and Bishop Gustaf Aulen "for ecumenical work in the United States among Lutherans."

Aulus Gabinius

During Gabinius' absence in Egypt, Syria had been devastated by robbers, and Alexander, son of Aristobulus, had again taken up arms with the object of depriving Hyrcanus II of the high-priesthood.

Brian Kolodiejchuk

He was ordained to the priesthood in June 1985 in the Ukrainian Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist in Newark, New Jersey, USA, by the late Metropolitan-Archbishop of Winnipeg, Maxim Hermaniuk, C.Ss.R.

Charles Gore

In 1903 a college for training candidates for the Anglican priesthood (College of the Resurrection), was established at Mirfield, and, in the same year, a branch house for missionary work was set up in Johannesburg in South Africa.

Charles Owen Rice

During seven decades of priesthood, Rice was pastor of Pittsburgh congregations including St. Joseph's in Natrona, Pennsylvania, Immaculate Conception in Washington, Pennsylvania, Holy Rosary in Homewood, and St. Ann's in Castle Shannon, Pennsylvania.

Christ Church Deer Park

In 1970, the church was the site of the ordination to the priesthood of Andrew Hutchison, who would later serve as Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.

David Lord

On his father's retirement from the Army the family moved to Wrexham and then David was a pupil at St Mary's College, Aberystwyth before attending the English Ecclesiastical College, Valladolid, Spain to study for the priesthood.

Donald Walter Trautman

He was ordained to the priesthood in Innsbruck on April 7, 1962, for the Diocese of Buffalo.

Emperor Go-Shirakawa

1169 (Kaō 1, 6th month): Emperor Go-Shirakawa entered the Buddhist priesthood at the age of 42.

Francis Joseph Hall

Ordained a deacon at St. John's Chapel of Racine College on July 1, 1885, he was advanced to the priesthood in the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul on October 11, 1886 by the Rt.

Franz Michael Permaneder

He studied theology and jurisprudence at Landshut and in 1818 was ordained to the priesthood at Regensburg.

Giuseppe Gazzaniga

Born in Verona, Gazzaniga was initially intended for the priesthood at the urging of his devout parents.

Greg Dening

In 1970 he left the priesthood because he could not preach against the use of birth control, the banning of which was outlined by Pope Paul VI in his encyclical Humanae Vitae in 1968.

Hermann Raich

Born in Jerzens, Austria, Raich was ordained to the priesthood on 29 April 1962.

Hugh Gilbert

Gilbert entered the monastery of Pluscarden in Moray, Scotland, taking the religious name Hugh, and was later sent to Fort Augustus Abbey on the shores of Loch Ness for studies and preparation for the priesthood.

Jean-Claude Colin

At the end of the summer of 1813 Jean-Claude set off for the major seminary of Saint Irenaeus at Lyon for the final years of preparation for the priesthood.

John Farmer Healy

Ordained to the priesthood on 11 June 1927, Healy was named the bishop title of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Gibraltar, Gibraltar in 1956 and died in February 1973 while still in office.

John J. Snyder

He attended St. Bartholomew and St. Andrew Avellino schools before studying for the priesthood at Cathedral College in Brooklyn and Immaculate Conception Seminary in Huntington, New York.

Joseph A. O'Hare

He trained for the priesthood at the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines, where he was ordained in 1961.

Joseph Duval

Born in Chênex, Duval was ordained to the priesthood on June 8, 1953.

Julius Joseph Overbeck

Overbeck had left the priesthood, converted to Lutheranism and married, though it is uncertain whether he ever functioned as a Lutheran pastor.

Keith Ackerman

Ackerman was ordained as a deacon in 1974 and to the priesthood the same year in Long Island, Kansas by Bishop William Davidson of the Diocese of Western Kansas.

Louis-Mathias, Count de Barral

He was born at Grenoble and was educated for the priesthood at the seminary of St. Sulpice, in Paris, and after ordination was made secretary, then coadjutor, and in 1790, successor, to his uncle, the Bishop of Troyes.

Luis Chávez y González

He recruited Rutilio Grande into the priesthood and supported Jose Inocencio Alas who helped to introduce Liberation Theology to the country.

Manuel Duran Moreno

After graduation, instead of beginning a business career, he began preparation for the vocation of the priesthood, entering Our Queen of Angels Seminary in San Fernando, California.

Matthew Kellison

In August 1587 he received orders, probably those of sub-deacon, and in September 1589, the year of his advancement to the priesthood, was sent back to Rheims to succeed William Giffard as professor of scholastic theology.

Michael Fors Olson

He began his studies for the priesthood in the Archdiocese of Chicago, but his family moved to Fort Worth, Texas and he transferred to the Fort Worth diocese.

Michael Joseph Hoeppner

He studied for the priesthood and continued his education with a JCL from St Paul's in Ottawa and a master's in Education from a Winona-area university.

Nephi Jensen

Jensen published many LDS tracts, as well as writing multiple manuals used in LDS priesthood meeting lessons, and several articles for the Improvement Era.

Patrick Buckley

Buckley was born in Tullamore, County Offaly, Ireland and is now living at The Oratory, Larne, County Antrim, a house which used to belong to the Catholic Diocese of Down and Connor and which Buckley refused to leave following his suspension from the priesthood in 1986 by the then bishop, Cahal Daly.

Peter Hasslacher

He was ordained to the priesthood on 1 September 1844, and then preached with much success in the Strasbourg Cathedral, until the year 1849.

Ramihrdus of Cambrai

Ramihrdus of Cambrai, a known priest who had been practicing his own sects of religion, was accused of heresy in 1076 or 1077 for being unwilling to accept communion from priests, including the bishop, after being summoned to court because he believed that the priesthood was corrupt.

Richard John Garcia

He completed his studies for the priesthood at Saint Joseph College in Mountain View and at St. Patrick's Seminary in Menlo Park, California.

Rodrigo Arango Velásquez

Born in Betania, Colombia, he was ordain to the priesthood on June 3, 1950.

Sacerdotalis

Ordinatio Sacerdotalis (Latin for On Ordination to the Priesthood) is a Roman Catholic document discussing the Roman Catholic Church's position requiring the reservation of priestly ordination to men alone

St Francis Xavier Parish, Mackay

Father Dolan studied for the priesthood at the great missionary college of All Hallows College, Dublin, Ireland, and was ordained in 1925.

Stanisław Ryłko

He was ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal Karol Wojtyła (later Pope John Paul II) on 30 March 1969, in Wawel Cathedral, and then did pastoral work in Poronin until 1971.

Stein Reinertsen

He was in his early career opposed to ordination of women to priesthood, but changed his view as a result of further studies of bible texts and conversations with former bishop Odd Bondevik.

Stéphanos I Sidarouss

He was educated at houses of studies belonging to this religious institute in France, where he was ordained to the priesthood on July 22, 1939, in Dax.

Vilnius St. Joseph Seminary

The seminary prepares candidates for priesthood in the Vilnius Archdiocese and the dioceses of Panevėžys and Kaišiadorys.

William E. Lori

Lori was ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Washington by Cardinal William Baum on May 14, 1977.

William Edward Addis

In 1888 he resigned the priesthood, after issuing a circular to his parishioners announcing his abjuration of Roman Catholic doctrines, and was married, at St. John's, Notting Hill, to Miss Mary Rachel Flood.

William Fisken

He was sent to the presbytery at Newcastle upon Tyne, and preached as a probationer at the adjoining village of Stamfordham, where in 1847 he was ordained into the priesthood.

Young Bengal

: free will, free ordination, fate, faith, the sacredness of truth, the high duty of cultivating virtue, and the meanness of vice, the nobility of patriotism, the attributes of God, and the arguments for and against the existence of the deity as these have been set forth in Hume on one side, and Reid, Dugald Stewart and Brosn on the other, the hollowness of idolatry and the shames of priesthood.

Zadok

Rabbinical commentators explain that the continuity of high priesthood is put forth to the descendants of Phineas from this noted verse.


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