The Church's position on the priesthood has changed in 2000 years. 

Peter was married, or Jesus wouldn't have been asked to cure his mother-in-law.  Paul explicitly said the disciples "have the right" to have a believing wife with them and that a bishop should be "the husband of one wife, blameless." 

Mary Magdalene is referred to as the "apostle to the apostles."  Paul sent greetings to Junia, and apparently named her as being among the apostles; he also identified many other women deacons and leaders in the early Church.

An unmarried, celibate male priesthood wasn't the rule until over a thousand years later.