Guidance

Marriages, baptisms and burials: guidance for the clergy

This booklet provides guidance to members of the clergy on their role and responsibilities during burials, baptisms and marriages.

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HM Passport Office
Published
16 October 2012
Last updated
9 September 2024 — See all updates

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Guidance for the clergy

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This booklet provides support and guidance to members of the clergy on their role and responsibilities relating to:

  • burials
  • issuing of a certificate of name given in baptism
  • ensuring that the legal requirements of marriages solemnized in accordance with the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England or Church in Wales are met

You should read it together with the Faculty Office booklet ‘Anglican Marriage in England and Wales. A guide to the law for Clergy’.

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Updates to this page

Published 16 October 2012
Last updated 9 September 2024 + show all updates

  1. Amended to reflect a change to the death certification process.

  2. Updated guidance for the clergy.

  3. Guidance updated due to changes in legislation.

  4. Updated guidance for the clergy.

  5. Guidance updated to reflect changes brought into force by the Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration Etc.) Act 2021.

  6. Updated guidance published.

  7. Updated guidance.

  8. Guidance updated.

  9. New guidance published

  10. New version of the guidance

  11. First published.

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