Married pastor ordained as priest in Spain

Spain got its first married priest this weekend when a Canary island bishop ordained an Anglican pastor as a Roman Catholic priest…

Spain got its first married priest this weekend when a Canary island bishop ordained an Anglican pastor as a Roman Catholic priest.

Zimbabwe-born Evans David Gliwitzki, who has two daughters aged 30 and 40, was ordained yesterday in the town of Laguna on the island of Tenerife by Bishop Felipe Fernandez, daily newspaper El Paisreported.

The bishop said the marriage had the full support of Spain's Catholic church.

He said it was an exceptional case to favour unity between churches and did not in any way signal an end to the Catholic church's insistence its priests be celibate.

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The Anglican church allows its ministers to marry.

AP