Requirements to be a godparent:

  • Be over 16 years old

  • Baptized Catholic

  • Practicing Catholic

  • Received all the sacraments of initiation (Baptism and Confirmation)

  • Be in good standing with the church- which means not excommunicated nor has renounced the faith

  • If a couple, is validly married in the Catholic Church

  • Not the parent of the child


The requirements for being a Christian Witness:

  • Be over 16 years old

  • Baptized 'In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit' who belongs to a non-Catholic ecclesial community

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