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in holy ordersHaving the status of an ordained member of the clergy: his friend in holy orders...- The Church in England has already relaxed its celibacy rules by allowing married Anglican priests to convert and remain in holy orders.
- But the laity should understand that doctrinal teaching, pastoral governance, and liturgical leadership are tasks ordinarily reserved to persons in holy orders, especially the pope and bishops.
- For the first six centuries of its existence, Cambridge, like Oxford, was a seminary, and until 1871 fellows were required to be celibates in holy orders.
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