Sharp Decline in Religious Marriages in Greece Over 30 Years

Religious weddings diminution successful Greece. Public Domain

Over the past 30 years, from 1994 to 2024, Greece has seen a melodramatic diminution successful spiritual marriages. The diminution was sharp: portion spiritual ceremonies accounted for 89.6% of each marriages successful 1994, this fig dropped to conscionable 38.5% successful 2024.

The lowest percent recorded was 29.5% successful 2020, the twelvemonth the COVID-19 pandemic dispersed successful Greece.

The examination of information betwixt 1994 and 2024. Religious weddings are successful pink, civic weddings successful blue. Civil Partnership Agreements successful green. Credit: Orthodoxia News Agency

Although the traditional marriage model remains dominant, different forms of national are dilatory but steadily increasing.

Data connected marriages successful Greece

Specifically, according to authoritative information from the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT):

Marriages successful 2024 totaled 36,649 (19,695 spiritual and 16,954 civil), a 9.2% alteration from 2023, erstwhile 40,351 marriages were performed (21,402 spiritual and 18,949 civil).

Civil Partnership Agreements (Sýmphona Symvíosis) successful 2024 amounted to 14,486, a 3.9% alteration compared to the 15,069 registered successful 2023.

The 2024 matrimony information includes, for the archetypal clip successful Greek history, pursuing the adoption of the applicable measure (which faced absorption from the Church and a ample portion of society), 182 same-sex marriages.

Correspondingly, the Civil Partnership Agreements for the aforesaid twelvemonth included 192 agreements betwixt men and 96 betwixt women.

These figures were published by the Hellenic Statistical Authority concerning the improvement of demographic indicators successful Greece during 2024.

Civil marriages were introduced successful Greece connected July 18, 1982, with the enactment of Greek instrumentality fig 1250/1982. The instrumentality established a dual system, meaning that some civilian marriages (performed by a politician oregon different civilian official) and spiritual marriages are legally valid successful Greece.

The aforesaid instrumentality besides legalized each civilian marriages performed overseas betwixt a Greek national and a overseas nationalist anterior to the 1982 date.

Related: The History and Tradition of Arranged Marriages successful Greece