Legal papers for Catholic weddings in Greece

1. BAPTISM CERTIFICATE

This document should be requested and freshly dated, close to your wedding date.

2. CONFIRMATION CERTIFICATE

This document is the assurance that you are free from any canonical impediment for marriage.

a.) These certificates must be obtained from the parish priest at the parish where you were baptized and must be dated within 3 months of your marriage.

b.) If the date of your confirmation is not written in at the parish in which you were baptized, you should ask for it from the same parish in which you were confirmed.

c.) Take these certificates to your present parish priest who should make the prenuptial inquiries and arrange catachetical instruction.

3. FREEDOM TO MARRY CERTIFICATE.

4 WRITTEN PERMISSION MUST BE OBTAINED FROM YOUR BISHOP TO HAVE YOUR MARRIAGE PERFORMED OUT OF YOUR PARISH AND IN GREECE.

This is according to Canon 1115" of the Codex Juris Canonici. Please discuss with your parish priest.

5. CERTIFICATE STATING YOU HAVE COMPLETED THE "PRE-CANA" INSTRUCTION CLASS, RETREAT OR MEETINGS.

6. DIVORCE CERTIFICATE IF ANY (from Civil and Church Authorities).

In the case that one or both sides has been divorced, you are obligated to obtain those Certificates.

Please note that all documents must be sent to Archbishop Office in Athens for review 3 months before your wedding in Greece.

You have to stay in Athens at least 1(one) working day after your wedding, in order to go to the Town Hall to sign your Marriage Certificate.

It will be sent to you by post from the Town Hall.
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