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• 1. Bride’s and groom’s passports (No translation necessary)
• 2. Marriage License and Registration of Marriage from your City Hall with the authenticated translation in Greek. (Authentication and translation can be handled at your local Greek Embassy or Consulate). In the event that the Marriage License is not easy to acquire, each of you can obtain a ‘’Single Status’’ letter accompanied by the authenticated translation in Greek. The ‘’Single Status’’ letter is a document issued from your country’s consulate or embassy that ensures that there is not a problem for you to get married.
• 3. Birth Certificates for each of you. Both to be authenticated and translated into Greek.
• 4. Divorce Certificate in the event there are any, translated into Greek.

• A Baptism Certificate. This document should be requested and dated close to your wedding date
• A Confirmation Certificate.
• A Freedom to Marry Certificate. This document is the assurance that you are free from any canonical impediment for marriage.
• These certificates must be obtained from the parish priest in which you were baptized and must be dated within 3 months of your marriage.
• If the date of your confirmation is not written in the parish in which you were baptized, you should ask for it in the same parish in which you were confirmed.
• Take these certificates to your present parish priest who should make the prenuptial inquiries and catechetical instruction.
• Written permission must be obtained from your Bishop to have your marriage
• performed out of your parish and here in Santorini. This is according to Canon 1115 of the Codex Juris Canonici.
• Certificate stating you have completed the “PRE-CANA” instruction class, retreat or meetings.
• Single status letter/Letter of impediment (translated & authenticated)

• From the Greek Orthodox Church, a certificate to give consent and the freedom to marry (Otherwise known as the letter of Celibacy).
• this document should be given in Greek and is signed & stamped from the priest of your parish thus there should be no need for translation
• Validation of this document for the authenticity of the priests’ signature MUST be obtained from the Bishop of the local church.
• Baptismal Certificates for both of you
• Signed & stamped by the parish priest. If not given in Greek, must be translated to Greek (valid only if translated by a Greek Consulate/Embassy or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Athens)
• Validation of this document for the authenticity of the priests’ signature MUST be obtained from the Bishop of the local church.

• Divorce certificate/degree if any…
• Certificate to be obtained from the judge and from the Church if you had a previous Greek Orthodox wedding.
• The divorce decree requires translation to Greek. Translation in Greek in only required for the pages that carry the court decision and not for the whole divorce settlement (Valid only if translated by a Greek Consulate/Embassy or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Athens).
• You will both have to sign a paper in a notary office that your children will become Greek Orthodox (Certificate of Faith).
• Document must be in Greek (Valid only if translated by a Greek Consulate/Embassy or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Athens)
• Single status letter/Letter of No Impediment (from your local registrar’s office/town hall for each of you or marriage license.
• The letters or marriage license requires translation to Greek (Valid only if translated by a Greek Consulate/Embassy or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Athens)

• The couple must have at least 7 overnights in Greece before the wedding ceremony
• All authenticated translated documents to be faxed (at least 60 days prior to the wedding date) to fax number 210 6776818.

In return we will send you a wedding date confirmation issued by the Municipality/Priest verifying all your documents are in order.

• Please bring all your original documents with you to Greece
• The day after your ceremony you will receive an officially signed marriage certificate.
• The Greek Authorities require that all documents requested (except Divorce decree) must be issued no more that 3 months prior to the wedding date.
• Please note that for the Greek Orthodox wedding, you will need to courier all original documents in English & Greek (after the confirmation from the priest that all documents – already sent by fax – are in order) to our office :

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