GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) – A pair of identical twins were ordained as priests in the Green Bay Catholic Diocese over the weekend.
James Sember says he couldn’t get his sons Ben and Joel "to apply any place else or do anything else, that what’s they decided they wanted to do."
Although both twins will serve in the Green Bay diocese, they say their ministries will be different.
Joel says though they have the same background and the same genes they have "a different approach to things."
And his brother Ben adds: "I hope we don’t ever get assigned to the same parish, not for our sake but for the people, it would be very confusing."
Since one has a mustache and a beard and the other doesn’t, it wouldn’t be that confusing.
Last year there was Gary and Todd Koenigsknecht in St. Paul, Minn , James and Joseph Campbell of Erie. and the twin sons of Catholic apologist Marcellino D’Ambrosio.
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Great news about the Sembers. Great guys. I studied with them in Rome. Thanks for the post! I can’t believe it’s time already -tempus fugit est!
Another new set of twin priests in Canada, Mario and Martin Jubinville of the St. Paul Diocese
http://www.wcr.ab.ca/news/2007/0611/mario061107.shtml
Cool to read about the twin priests! I’m a twin too!
Wouldn’t it be cool if one of the twins had a really long confession to hear and the other priest relieved him? The penitent would never be aware of the switch.