Clerical marriage Orthodox Communion (Constantinople, Alexandria Egypt, Antioch Syria, and Jerusalem). As stated above, the majority of Roman Church Priests at that time were married. Therefore, when some churches that followed western rites and traditions were brought back into communion with the Orthodox Churches beginning in the 20th century, their right to have married clergy, provided they were married before ordination, was restored. The practice of clerical marriage was initiated in the West by the followers of Martin Luther, who himself, a former priest and monk, married Katharina von Bora, a former nun, in 1525. It has not been introduced in the
Catharine Johnston December 1831 she was made an "Extraordinary member" of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club. Her drawings assisted other notable scientists to further their research. In 1853 Philip Henry Gosse named the marine species "Tomopteris (Johnstonella) catharina" in her honor stating: Catharine Johnston Catharine Johnston, Charles, (1794–1871) was an English botanical illustrator who had a species of marine animal named in her honour. Johnston was born in 1794 and was the daughter of William Claudius Charles, a surgeon who had worked in the West Indies. On 23 November 1819 she married Dr George Johnston, a famous naturalist, and moved to Berwick-on-Tweed where