In Latin Church Catholicism and in some Eastern Catholic Churches, most priests are celibate men. ... In most Orthodox traditions and in some Eastern Catholic Churches men who are already married may be ordained priests, but priests may not marry after ordination.

In what year were priests forbidden to marry?

It was not until ecumenical meetings of the Catholic Church at the First and Second Lateran councils in 1123 and 1139 that priests were explicitly forbidden from marrying.

Can priests be married?

The Catholic Church, which includes nearly two dozen rites, allows married priests in its Eastern Rite churches. ... The convert priests see themselves as narrow exceptions to centuries of Catholic rules, part of a drive in the Catholic church to reunite with some branches of Anglicanism.