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Wife-seeking priests 'not such a good catch'

By Tom Hayes, November 06, 2004

Saturday November 6th 2004


THE highly conservative Greek Orthodox Church this week started a highly unorthodox recruitment drive - for women - after aspiring young priests complained that they could not find wives.

The Greek Church accepts married priests, but young men with a vocation have told the country's Holy Synod that priests, with their black robes and austere lifestyle, are not the catch they used to be.

The Church announced this week that it would form a committee to "examine the subject".

"The most important thing is that the Church has now finally mentioned the subject," said one priest. "That is a very big start." (� Daily Telegraph, London)

Harry de Quetteville
in Athens


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