Can we have only one Godparent?

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Hi everyone! My husband are I having a very difficult time finding Godparents for our baby who is not born yet. My husband’s brother is the Godfather of our four other children only because we had no one else to ask. He never goes to church and lives the kind of lifestyle we don’t want our kids to know about. Although he was born and raised Catholic, he has definitely fallen away from the faith. We have asked the Godmother of our first child to be the Godmother of our new baby and she has accepted. She is very Catholic and has a daughter that is about the same age as our first. My question is does there have to be a Godfather, or can we just have a Godmother? We really need to know what is allowed by the Church because we don’t know what we are going to do? Thank you and God bless you!
 
I am not an expert on this, and can’t quote the appropriate references, hopefully somebody else will. That being said, you may have one or two godparents, and if two they must be different genders. So one godparent is perfectly allowed.
 
If you are baptizing an infant or child you may ask grandparents or a grandparent to be Godparent.
Many people overlook this convenience.
 
Ok here is the senerio, baby girl, Practicing God Mother no Catholic God father and no Christian witness, is that ok as far as being sufficient?
 
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