Which Pope upheld the necessity of celibacy for priests?
The statements below I copied and pasted from the “newadvent.org” Catholic website. It states: “(Answers are found in, sic) the testimony of writers of the fourth and fifth century. Thus Eusebius declares that it is befitting that priests and those occupied in the ministry should observe continence . . . and St. Cyril of Jerusalem urges that the minister of the altar who serves God properly holds himself aloof from women. . . St. Jerome further seems to speak of a custom generally observed when he declares that clerics, “even though they may have wives, cease to be husbands”. But the passage most confidently appealed to is one of St. Epiphanius where the holy doctor first of all speaks of the accepted ecclesiastical rule of the priesthood (kanona tes ierosynes) as something established by the Apostles (Haer., xlviii, 9), and then in a later passage seems to describe this rule or canon in some detail. “Holy Church”, he says, “respects the dignity of the priesthood to such a point that s
