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Christian terminology and theological views of marriage vary by time period, by country, and by the different Christian denominations.. Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christians consider marriage as a holy sacrament or sacred mystery, while Protestants consider marriage to be a sacred institution or "holy ordinance" of God.
The law in England authorizes marriages to be legal if properly carried out and registered in the Church of England and some other religious bodies (e.g. Jewish, Quakers): other men and women who wish to marry can be married by a local official authorized to do so (civil ceremony).
Quaker marriage has been subject of special law in England and Wales since the 18th century. The first Marriage Act 1753 , which regulated the legal and civic recognition of marriage, recognised only marriages conducted by the " Society of Friends ", Jews and the Church of England and removed recognition of common-law marriage or marriage ...
The Marriage (Prohibited Degrees) Relationship Act 1931 extended the operation of the 1907 Act to allow the marriages of nieces and nephews by marriage as well. [39] Section 4 of the 1907 Act was rendered moot in 1944, when the Convocations of Canterbury and York voted to align the Church of England prohibited degrees with the civil law. [40]
A third or more prayed every day. Large majorities used formal Church services to mark birth, marriage and death. [46]: 280–290 The great majority believed in God and heaven, although belief in hell fell off after all the deaths of the World War. [54] After 1918, Church of England services stopped practically all discussion of hell. [55]
The Divorce (Religious Marriages) Act 2002 (c. 27) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.The act amends the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 to allow one party to petition a court to not declare their divorce decree absolute until they have received a similar document from a religion's authority.
Marriage in the Catholic Church, also known as holy matrimony, is the "covenant by which a man and woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life and which is ordered by its nature to the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring", and which "has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament between the baptized". [1]
The freedom to manifest one's religion or beliefs shall be subject only to such limitations as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society in the interests of public safety, for the protection of public order, health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.