Canon 796

1. In danger of death, the local hierarch can dispense the

Christian faithful subject to him wherever they are and other

Christian faithful actually present within the territorial

boundaries of his eparchy from the form to be observed in the

celebration of marriage, and from each and every impediment of

ecclesiastical law, whether public or occult, except the impediment of the sacred order of priesthood. 2. In the same situation and only for those cases in which the local hierarch cannot

be reached, the following have the same power: the pastor; another priest endowed with the faculty of blessing the marriage and

the Catholic priest mentioned in can 832, 2; the confessor, if

it is a question of an occult impediment for the internal forum,

whether within or outside the act of sacramental confession. 3.

The local hierarch is not considered to be accessible if he can

be contacted only by means other than letter or personal access.