Personal Status Law and Procedures of Litigation before the Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East of the Greek Orthodox

Type

Law

Date of the text

16/10/2003

Official Gazette

published in 2003

Status today

In force as of 27/08/2026

Articles

98

What it provides

This law governs personal status matters of Greek Orthodox faithful before the ecclesiastical courts of the Patriarchate of Antioch, setting the scope of their jurisdiction, defining who counts as Orthodox, and regulating betrothal, its conditions and its dissolution.

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 2003. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.