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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Fri Feb 28, 2014, 04:43 PM Feb 2014

A married man is ordained a Maronite Catholic priest

Lilly Fowler

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (RNS) Wissam Akiki is a Catholic priest and a married man.

The pews were packed Thursday (Feb. 27) as Akiki became the first married man in the Maronite Catholic Church ordained into the priesthood in the United States with the blessing of the pope.

Bishop Elias Zaidan of the Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles, which is based in St. Louis, led the ordination ceremony held at St. Raymond’s Maronite Cathedral.

Manal Kassab, who has been married to Akiki for about a decade, and their daughter, Perla, 8, were also present.

http://www.religionnews.com/2014/02/28/married-man-ordained-maronite-catholic-priest/

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