how many Orthodox priests are married?

[kql314]

as a % ? Always been curious....

Thanks,

Ken

 

[Dorothea]

beats me. I'll see if there are any stats out there, but I wouldn't count on it.

 

[Dorothea]

Here's an article that mentions this:

About 91 percent (575 of 630) of active Greek Orthodox priests in the United States are married, and it is "very rare" for Greek Orthodox clerics to resign, he said.

Nation & World | Priests and marriage: Could Catholics follow example of Orthodox? | Seattle Times Newspaper


I don't know about the other jurisdiction. I just googled and found this.

 

[E.C.]

Just a rough guestimate probably... 90%.

 

[ArmyMatt]

many is all I can say

 

[buzuxi02]

Definately the majority, 90 percent seems like a safe estimate.

 

[-Kyriaki-]

Most. We have only a few unmarried priests in the whole country (one is my parish priest and I love him to death, but have also learned to take relationship drama questions to a married priest lol). Most have wives and generally big families.

 

[Knee V]

I've met one non-monastic, celibate priest, and I've heard of a couple others in the U.S. But the others here are probably correct with the 90-something % figure.

 

[MrJim]

Our priest is not married~~I heard him referred to as a priestmonk in a podcast and asked him what it meant and he said it simply meant he was a celibate priest not a tonsured monk (I didn't know).