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Vic: Prominent Anglican clergyman ordained a Catholic priest

AAP General News (Australia) | December 23, 2003 | Copyright

AAP General News (Australia)
12-23-2003
Vic: Prominent Anglican clergyman ordained a Catholic priest

A prominent Anglican clergyman known for his hardline stance on gay clergy and the
ordination of women has become a Roman Catholic priest.

Ballarat's former Anglican Dean BILL EDEBOHLS, who's married with children, was ordained
in Melbourne's St Patrick's Cathedral last month.

The Pope allows married priests who convert to Catholicism an exemption from the vow of celibacy.

A spokesman for St Peter's Catholic Church in the Melbourne…












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