Concordat wedding (ślub konkordatowy)

Overview

• Combines a church wedding with civil legal recognition.
• Introduced in Poland in 1998.
• Conducted in a church, the officiating clergy submits the marriage documents to the Register office
  (Urząd Stanu Cywilnego, USC) within five days.
• Couples must fulfill both religious and civil requirements.

Recognized religious institutions

The following churches and religious associations in Poland provide for the possibility of entering into a religious marriage with civil legal effects:

• Catholic Church
• Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church
• Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession
• Evangelical Reformed Church
• Evangelical Methodist Church
• Baptist Church
• Seventh-day Adventist Church
• Polish Catholic Church
• Union of Jewish Religious Communities
• Old Catholic Mariavite Church
• Pentecostal Church