Yes, our priests are married.

Our Clergy lead fulfilling lives, marrying and raising families, bringing a rich perspective to their ministry.

Our pastor, Fr. Jim Konicki is married to Renee (nee Rogers). He has three children, Stephanie, Adam, and Victoria, as well as two Labradoodles: Ellie and Lilo.

Our organizer, Bishop Francis Hodur initiated debate at several of the early Holy Synods of the Church. This aligned with the ancient practices of the Holy Church. The Apostles themselves were mostly married men. Bishops and priests were generally married until issues of money and property led the Roman Church to institute mandatory celibacy. Marriage of clergy in the Orthodox and Oriental Churches had always taken place.

At the Synod of 1914 Bishop Hodur stated:

“One of the reasons that the celibacy of priests was established was the poor image of women then, that is, at the time of the creation of the Roman Church… So it was reasoned for one-thousand-five-hundred years and today adherents of the National Church will reason until the priests and lay leaders get to work and through brochures, gradually push aside prejudices, ignorance and irritation, and will make possible the passage through the Synod of such laws which will guarantee freedom and dignity, as priestly as human, to those who remaining in non-marriage can give themselves completely to God and His Church, as to those who wish to have families, a domestic hearth, and nevertheless work with benefit and glory for the Kingdom of Christ on earth… I call upon you all and ask and beseech that you would help me resolve it in the future in a spirit of tolerance, of humanity, in a spirit of Divine and human justice, and by this help lead the Church so that it may grow, develop and perfect itself to the happiness and salvation of the people.”

At the Synod of 1921 it was resolved: The Polish National Catholic Church in America abrogates mandatory celibacy or the non-marriage of clergy and leaves to the priests their freedom as to entering marital unions, with this reservation, that a priest intending to take advantage of this law is to obtain agreement for this step on the part of the parish as well as the part of the bishop.

This was later modified so that men already married may freely become priests in the Church