Pope Saint Hormisdas has been Married
Catholic Encyclopedia: Before receiving higher orders he had been married; his son became pope under the name of Silverius (536-537). Under Pope Symmachus (498-514) Hormisdas held the office of deacon of the Roman Church and during the schism of Laurentius he was one of the most prominent clerical attendants of Symmachus. He was notary at the synod held at St. Peter's in 502, and Ennodius of Pavia, with whom he was on friendly terms, expressed the conviction that this Roman deacon, so eminent for piety, wealth, and distinguished birth, would occupy the See of Rome [Ennodii opera, ed. Vogel (Berlin, 1885), 287, 290].
De Montor, Lives of the Popes volume 1, page 125 under Saint Sylverius: The martyr, Saint Sylverius, of Frosinone, was the son of Pope Hormisdas, who had contracted legitimate marriage before he received holy orders.
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