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Church of England [7] and Church in Wales [8] priests are not permitted to conduct same-sex marriages. However, the Church in Wales has the power to require the Lord Chancellor to change the law to permit them to do so [9] and has approved a liturgy for their blessing. [8]
Quaker marriages in England and Wales have two marriage certificates: The Quaker marriage certificate is a large document which sets out the couple's names, the procedure they have followed and the declarations made. It is signed by the couple and by all who were present at the meeting for worship for solemnisation of the marriage.
The practice of clerical marriage was initiated in the West by the followers of Martin Luther, who himself, a former priest and monk, married Katharina von Bora, a former nun, in 1525. It has not been introduced in the East. In the Church of England, however, the Catholic tradition of clerical celibacy continued after the Break with Rome.
Parish registers were formally introduced in England and Wales on 5 September 1538 shortly after the formal split with Rome in 1534, when Thomas Cromwell, chief minister to Henry VIII, acting as his Vicar General, issued an injunction requiring that in each parish of the Church of England registers of all baptisms, marriages, and burials be kept.
[78] [79] The canons of the Church of England currently state that "marriage is in its nature a union permanent and lifelong... of one man with one woman, to the exclusion of all others on either side", and consequently teaches that Holy Matrimony can only be between one man and one woman. [80] [81] The Church of England has also maintained the ...
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