7 dated entries naming Priesthood in the Catholic Church, drawn from 7 separate years between 585 CE and 1972 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
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585Goar of Aquitaine, priest and hermit (approximate date)source
7th century
649July 6 – Goar of Aquitaine, Catholic priest and hermit (b. c.585)source
676John of Damascus, Syrian monk and priest (approximate date)source
8th century
749December 4 – John of Damascus, Syrian monk and priestsource
16th century
1540July 30 – At Smithfield, London, three Lutheran pastors, Robert Barnes, Thomas Gerrard and William Jerome, are burnt at the stake on a charge of heresy and three Roman Catholic priests, Thomas Abel, Richard Fetherstone and Edward Powell, are hanged, drawn and quartered on a charge of high treason.source
19th century
1886April 24 – Father Augustine Tolton, the first Roman Catholic priest from the United States to identify himself publicly as African American, is ordained in Rome.source
20th century
1972July 31 – Claudy bombing ("Bloody Monday"), 10:00 AM : Three car bombs in Claudy, County Londonderry, kill nine. It becomes public knowledge only in 2010 that a local Catholic priest was an IRA officer believed to be involved in the bombings but his role was covered up by the authorities.source