Age at Ordination, c1820

[Ghostwheel]

I was wondering if anyone could tell me the typical age at which a Catholic priest was ordained, roughly around 1820.

Does 25 sound about right?

Anyone know what the minimum age might be?  Would something like 18 or 19 definitely be too young?

[Wexflyer]

I was wondering if anyone could tell me the typical age at which a Catholic priest was ordained, roughly around 1820.

Does 25 sound about right?

Anyone know what the minimum age might be?  Would something like 18 or 19 definitely be too young?

Yes. 25 sounds right. There was a minimum, though it escapes me.
18 or 19 definitely too young.

[Wexflyer]

I was wondering if anyone could tell me the typical age at which a Catholic priest was ordained, roughly around 1820.

Does 25 sound about right?

Anyone know what the minimum age might be?  Would something like 18 or 19 definitely be too young?

Yes. 25 sounds right. There was a minimum, though it escapes me.
18 or 19 definitely too young.

Catholic Enyclopedia says age 25.
https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01206c.htm

[Ghostwheel]

Thanks, Wexflyer

I think I've seen 23, but much earlier.  In the late1600s/early 1700s.

In reading about some of the Irish colleges on the continent, it seems like some of them (who went to college in the 1600s and 1700s) were about 30, before they returned to Ireland.

I remember coming across a suprisingly young age, for when these men sent abroad were "decided for the priesthood", in that earlier time.  Don't want to misquote it, but from memory, it was about 14.  But, obviously, that was just the career track.  Perhaps, getting some preliminary education.

[Wexflyer]

Thanks, Wexflyer

I think I've seen 23, but much earlier.  In the late1600s/early 1700s.

In reading about some of the Irish colleges on the continent, it seems like some of them (who went to college in the 1600s and 1700s) were about 30, before they returned to Ireland.

I remember coming across a suprisingly young age, for when these men sent abroad were "decided for the priesthood", in that earlier time.  Don't want to misquote it, but from memory, it was about 14.  But, obviously, that was just the career track.  Perhaps, getting some preliminary education.

Precisely - to be ordained you needed to know Latin, so you needed a classical education, etc.

[Ghostwheel]

Came across a fellow ordained c1850, who went to St. Patrick's in Maynooth, who I can precisely date.  He was 26, so fairly in-line with 25.