Tuesday, February 04, 2014

Agreement between Holy See and Malta

http://www.foreign.gov.mt/Library/News/386/2/4775.jpgOn 27 January, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Malta, the third additional protocol to the agreement between the Holy See and the Republic of Malta of 3 February 1993 on the recognition of civil effects to canonical marriages and the decisions of the Authorities and ecclesiastical tribunals on the same marriages.

The agreement was signed on behalf of the Holy See by Archbishop Aldo Cavalli, apostolic nuncio to Malta, as Plenipotentiary, and for the Republic of Malta by George W. Vella, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malta.

The Third Additional Protocol, which consists of four articles, amends the aforementioned Agreement of 1993.