Wikipedia's article on the deacon, read directly for this pass, which states that by the modern era the only men ordained as deacons were seminarians completing the last year or so of graduate theological training, so-called transitional deacons, and that following the Second Vatican Council's recommendation, Pope Paul VI issued the 1967 motu proprio Sacrum Diaconatus Ordinem, reviving the practice of ordaining to the diaconate men who were not candidates for priestly ordination, including married men aged 35 or older with their wife's written consent.
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A community-edited tertiary reference, not peer-reviewed, but the 1967 Sacrum Diaconatus Ordinem restoration of the permanent diaconate is settled Catholic canonical history with no live dispute over the date. NotesCited for the 1967 restoration of the permanent diaconate; the office's existing mode-of-succession fact narrates the change in prose without a structured date.
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PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deacon
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This source names Paul VI directly: "Vatican Council's recommendation, Pope Paul VI issued the 1967 motu proprio Sacrum Diaconatus Ordinem, reviving the practice of ordaining to the diaconate men who were not candidates for priestly..."
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