To start with, we wish you all the best for your marriage.<\/p>\n
If you are foreign citizens and live abroad, and have decided to marry in Rome \u2014 either in a parish or in another authorised church, such as one of the city\u2019s monumental churches \u2014 the first thing to be done is to go to the parish nearest to where you live so as to ask the parish priest regarding a marriage preparation course: this course will help you to discover and examine in depth the beauty of Christian Marriage.<\/p>\n
Your parish priest is that of the territorial parish of the place where you have your home: it is to him that you have to go for information regarding paperwork and bureaucratic procedures. As for the date of your wedding, keep in mind that regarding certain important matters you will need to seek advice from the priest in charge of the church where you wish to get married in Rome, as there are certain periods in which weddings are forbidden here in Rome, for example during Lent.<\/p>\n
If you have chosen to get married in one of the monumental churches of the centre of Rome, the parish priest who is looking after the paperwork for marriage will have to sign a certificate of acknowledgement (\u00abattestato di presa visione\u00bb) that you will have received from a priest in charge of the church where you have decided to get married.<\/p>\n
After the marriage course, together with your parish priest you will have to undertake the pre-marriage enquiry, a process \u2014 which includes gathering the necessary religious documents \u2014 by which the parish priest, in name of the Church, welcomes and authorises the celebration of your marriage. This pre-marriage equiry is to begin not more than six months before the date of the wedding.<\/p>\n
At the end of the pre-marriage equiry, the parish priest will ask your local Bishop to sign the permission for marriage; all the paperwork will then be sent to us either by express courier or given to you for you to deliver it to us (here is a link Where we are<\/a> to the address and opening times).<\/p>\n Once our office have received the documents \u2014 either directly from you or from the express courier (and preferably with a scanned copy of the documents having been previously sent by email) \u2014 we shall proceed to fill out the Final Document called \u00abdocumento quattordici\u00bb (\u00abdocument fourteen\u00bb) which will be given to you or to a representative of yours in possession of a signed mandate, so that it be taken, before the celebration, to the church where the marriage will take place. Please note that in Italy it is obbligatory to celebrate either a religious marriage with civil effects, or to have the civil marriage before the religious celebration.<\/p>\n For this reason we shall issue the Final Document, \u00abdocumento quattordici\u00bb (\u00abdocument fourteen\u00bb) only after having received the certificate of your civil marriage (if you are already civilly married) o after having received the \u00abNulla Osta Consolare\u00bb (Consular Permission) from your Consulate here in Rome (if you are celebrating a \u00abconcordatory marriage\u00bb, a religious marriage with civil effects).<\/p>\n For further information about the kind of \u00abNulla Osta Consolare\u00bb that the Italian State requires from you in order to celebrate your marriage you can consult the website of the \u00abMinistero degli Esteri\u00bb (Ministry of Foreign Affairs). Here is a link: Go<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n Only then shall we be able to issue the the Final Document that you or your representative is to take to the church where you are to be married. Often, to avoid the bureaucratic complications of obtaining the \u00abNulla Osta Consolare\u00bb (Consular permission), spouses are advised to get married civilly in their own country and then to send to our office the civil marriage certificate, so as to celebrate only the religious marriage here in Rome. If you have any doubts or problems, do not hesitate to contact your parish priest, who if needed will contact the offices of his own Bishop or our offices for further clarifications, or will direct you directly to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To start with, we wish you all the best for your marriage. If you are foreign citizens and live abroad, and have decided to marry in Rome \u2014 either in a parish or in another authorised church, such as one Read more…<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nulla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diocesidiroma.it\/matrimoni\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diocesidiroma.it\/matrimoni\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diocesidiroma.it\/matrimoni\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diocesidiroma.it\/matrimoni\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diocesidiroma.it\/matrimoni\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.diocesidiroma.it\/matrimoni\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"https:\/\/www.diocesidiroma.it\/matrimoni\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diocesidiroma.it\/matrimoni\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diocesidiroma.it\/matrimoni\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diocesidiroma.it\/matrimoni\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}