The law of marriage and divorce in the church of England and the church of Greece since 1850 with its theological implications

Abstract

relevance for understanding the practice of the Orthodox Church on marriage. Appendix II deals with the liturgical structure of the Orthodox rite of marriage and provides an English version of the actual liturgical Order for first and second marriages, as well as the Service for re-establishing dissolved marriages. Appendix III provides the basic canons governing the present law of marriage and divorce in the Church of England, and the Form of Solemnization of Matrimony according to the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. Appendix IV includes an English-Greek and a Greek-English glossary of some terms used in connection with the law of marriage and divorce and selected English and Greek Bibliographies.