can a Marriage be valid if one person is not Catholic?

[Unclegrizz]

My wife and I have beend married over 20 years, we were married by a Catholic Deacon in a Catholic Church. At the time I was not Catholic, but have since gone through RCIA and become Catholic. Is our marriage valid or is there something more we need to do to make it valid?

 

[Fr.Charles_Grondin]

I presume that your wife was a Catholic at the time of your marriage. A marriage between a Catholic and a non-Catholic is indeed valid if it takes place within a Catholic liturgy (or receives dispensation to be married elsewhere). Thus your marriage to your Catholic wife in a Catholic liturgy was indeed valid.

If you were not baptized at the time of the marriage then you had a valid natural marriage which then automatically became a valid sacramental marriage at the time of your baptism.

If you were baptized at the time of your marriage then you had a valid sacramental marriage from the very beginning.