He is one of four brothers who all became diocesan priests.
There were 311 active diocesan priests and 1,095 women religious.
He felt the conviction to join a religious order rather than serve as a diocesan priest.
In 1970, 37,000 active diocesan priests served 50 million Catholics.
Don Peter was the first diocesan priest to hold this responsible post.
Responsibility for its development fell to two diocesan priests, Fr.
Isabel in 1970, and diocesan priests have since administered the same from 1974 to the present.
There are 13 diocesan priests, 26 religious men and 85 religious women.
Now fewer than 25,000 active diocesan priests serve 55 million Catholics.
The Major seminarians are also taught by local diocesan priests.
He became a secular priest, and was sent on the English mission in 1631.
He grew up with the idea of becoming a secular priest.
It was transferred to the care of secular priests in 1788.
The number of secular priests was 390, those belonging to orders 70.
In Tortosa, 44 percent of the secular priests were killed.
The church at Wells, no longer a cathedral, had a college of secular priests.
In 1578 the Franciscans took over and ten years later the secular priests.
The church is run by a college of canons, who are secular priests.
Even his parents pleaded with him to do so and become a secular priest.
It was turn over to the secular priest in 1898.
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