Orthodox, I live with a Muslim woman. We don’t want to go to the registry office. How to legalize a marriage?translated

Reader question:

I am an Orthodox Christian, Gagauz. This is important: our nation is a believer, but our culture also has Muslim holidays. I studied religions and realized that God is one, just in different traditions He is called differently. The Koran is a semantic translation, the Bible is from Aramaic. I live with a Muslim woman in a civil marriage. We want to legalize the relationship, but not only in the registry office, but before God. She respects my faith, I respect hers. We pray to God alone. For Orthodox Christians it is wedding, for Muslims it is nikkah. Muslims revere Christ as the son of Mary. At SVO I saw that Buddhists, Muslims, and Orthodox Christians all pray to the same God. What should we do?

Oleg

Priest's answer:

Archpriest Mikhail SAMOKHIN

Press Secretary of the Pyatigorsk and Circassian diocese;  Head of Information and Publishing Department; head of the missionary department of the Pyatigorsk and Circassian diocese.

Hello, Oleg!

Among the clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church there are also representatives of the Gagauz people. For example, Patriarchal Archdeacon Konstantin Bargan. He actively supports Orthodoxy in Gagauzia. So, he also testifies that in the Orthodox faith of the Gagauz there are no differences from world Orthodoxy. We all read the same...