There are five jurisdiction of the Catholic Church, over time Roman Catholic Church has dominated Nigeria and several other countries, especially in West Africa and the Western World. There are other four jurisdiction of the Catholic Church that are not Roman but Byzantine, Alexandria, Jerusalem and Antichian; all these Rites allow their priest to be married, although is it optional.

The goodnews is that Nigeria now has Byzantine Catholic Church presence and are looking for Married Men who feel called by God to Minister at the Altar.

Celibacy is not by force, it is optional and we go along with Saint Paul in Corinth who says, if you can not stay, then get married and serve God. All the apostles except John the youngest were married, several other Priests and Bishops were married before Roman Jurisdiction made a rule abolishing married priesthood in Roman Rite of Catholism.

The majority of the English-speakers who are visiting this Forum are likely Latin Rite Catholics -- but that's not the only Rite.

A Rite represents an ecclesiastical, or church, tradition about how the sacraments are to be celebrated. Each of the sacraments has at its core an essential nature which must be satisfied for the sacrament to be confected or realized. This essence - of matter, form and intention - derives from the divinely revealed nature of the particular sacrament. It cannot be changed by the Church. Scripture and Sacred Tradition, as interpreted by the Magisterium, tells us what is essential in each of the sacraments (2 Thes. 2:15).

When the apostles brought the Gospel to the major cultural centers of their day the essential elements of religious practice were inculturated into those cultures. This means that the essential elements were clothed in the symbols and trappings of the particular people, so that the rituals conveyed the desired spiritual meaning to that culture. In this way the Church becomes all things to all men that some might be saved (1 Cor. 9:22).

There are three major groupings of Rites based on this initial transmission of the faith, the Roman, the Antiochian (Syria) and the Alexandrian (Egypt). Later on the Byzantine derived as a major Rite from the Antiochian, under the influence of St. Basil and St. John Chrysostom. From these four derive the over 20 liturgical Rites present in the Church today.

For more reading on the various Rites of the Church, visit holyorthodoxcatholicchurch.org

Na new thing.?? ??

This has being part of the Catholic Faith since the founding at the pentecost. Nigeria was not evangelized by the Eastern Catholic Rites that allowed married priesthood but by the Western Catholic Rite known as Roman Rite.

The news is that Nigeria now has the presence of the other two Rites of the Catholic Church that permit married men to be ordained as priest as it were in the beginning of the Church.