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Delaware

Register with the county Clerk of the Peace

What a Lumen minister should do

Email or fax the ordination certificate and the cover letter to the Clerk of the Peace of the county where the ceremony will be; registration in any county covers the whole state.

Register with
Clerk of the Peace (residents: home county; nonresidents: ceremony county)
Authority
13 Del. C. § 106
How
County-dependent: Kent accepts ordination documentation by fax/email; Sussex emails instructions after the couple's license appointment; New Castle — contact the Clerk of the Peace
Documents
Copy of ordination documentation plus name, address, phone and clergy title
Fee
None stated
Expires
Permanent registration number that must appear on every certificate
Official form
No statewide form — submit documents to the county Clerk of the Peace

Your registration packet

One PDF: a cover letter from the church to the office with every datum they ask for, your Letter of Good Standing and your Certificate of Ordination — plus a data sheet to copy into the office's form or portal.

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