Can a married man from the Roman Rite transfer to an Eastern Catholic Church and become a priest?
It could be done, but is discouraged. The Church does not want her children fleeing to another ritual Church just to avoid the disciplines of the Church of their birth! It would also entail a lot. One would have to learn the sacred language of the rite one joins, in order to celebrate the Liturgy in that language. Also, if you live in the US or Canada, the Eastern Rite bishop would have to send you to his homeland for your ordination, because of an old law which forbids Eastern Rites from ordaining married men in the US or Canada (I personally dislike that law because I feel the Eastern Catholic Church should not be restricted so. But for the moment it stands). So let’s say a married Roman Catholic man in the US switches to the Ukrainian Catholic Church with the intention of becoming a priest. After studying for years in the Ukrainian Catholic seminary, learning Ukrainian and the Divine Liturgy in Old Slavonic (the liturgical language of that rite), he and his family would have to move
