The Orthodox Church in America's own teaching page on marriage, divorce and remarriage: the Church holds marriage a lifelong, monogamous sacrament, opposes divorce, and nonetheless permits a divorced person to remarry in the Church up to a third union under the principle of oikonomia, pastoral economy exercised "in its concern for the salvation of its people," with a fourth union altogether forbidden and a third permitted only with a penitential rite.
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An official teaching statement from one autocephalous Orthodox jurisdiction, the Orthodox Church in America, not a pan-Orthodox synodal act, the same honest caveat this project already applies to this body's ordination-practice-detail fact under a different claim. Used here as representative of the position widely held across Orthodox jurisdictions, not as a claim to speak for all of them. NotesCited for Eastern Orthodoxy's marriage-position and its detail: the sacramental, monogamous ideal, opposition to divorce, and the pastoral economy permitting up to three total marriages.
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PublisherOrthodox Church in America
URLhttps://www.oca.org/questions/sacramentmarriage/divorce-and-remarriage
Source TypeOfficial doctrinal statement
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