is there a churchco policy about whether / not (Melch) PH holders can marry people <in the CHI>?

just curious, mind U

Huh? Do you mean can PH holders perform a marriage ceremony?

I think a bishop can marry people and so can missionaries. Basically, anyone with an ecclesiastical endorsement can perform marriages.....and you get that on the internet.

Yes, but any missionary performing a marriage would be sent home immediately. He has legal authority (probably?) but not church authorization.

Not when I was a missionary in 83 - 85. We all carried a ministerial certificate and were told we could perform marriages.

Maybe they changed it. Legally, anyone can perform a "religious" marriage if the have a ministerial certificate, which anyone can get on line these days. I've performed many marriages with mine :)

Roy: (as I mentioned earlier) <at one time?> Ohio (+ others?) required a license from the state.

Regarding our ministerial licenses, here's a photo of mine... (if this works...)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xqZnE4fziGcoWXszwLRr7PR1N3b4qB3t/view?usp=sharing

I'll have to ask DH if he still has his license. I've never seen it in the 30 years we have been together, but that doesn't mean he no longer has it.

Did you get that when you were sent on your mission?

Yes, towards the end of the week at the old Salt Lake City mission home, where Elder Bowler and I slept together in a double bed for that week.

my friend has a SIL who's a HP.

Some states (Ohio for one) require a "license" to marry people (or at least they did) for the marriage to be considered 'valid' which is of course VERY old-fashioned....


OK, so they send a mish home, but what about a non-mish;? are they going to discipline someone for performing a wedding?
I hardly think so!!!

If you're wanting to know who has the authority to perform a marriage in your state, I'm sure you can find that information online.

ziler can confirm ~


ziller has the authority to marry exmos on an island or on a boat ~


these exmos remain married the whole time they both are on said boat or island ~

both horizontally as well as vertically?

They asked if DH, former Mo, could perform their marriage ceremony. He immediately became a member of some Universal Church in their state and ended up performing their ceremony, and two other marriages for the relatives-in-law. Everybody was happy because he consulted with each couple about what they wanted him to say. There were some mixed marriages here, i.e. religiously mixed and everyone was happy.

DH even learned some Polish words to say at the first ceremony. The family loved it! They later said they knew what he was trying to say.