Originally published December 2019; updated August 2026 to reflect their marriage and annulment outcome.

Is Blake Shelton Catholic? As far as is known, he hasn’t converted to Catholicism, but his relationship with Gwen Stefani, a practicing Catholic, has visibly shaped his faith. The two married in a small chapel Shelton built on his Oklahoma ranch on July 3, 2021 — a wedding that almost didn’t happen the way it did, because of Stefani’s Catholic faith.

Gwen Stefani married Gavin Rossdale in 2002, and they divorced in 2016. The Catholic Church does not recognize divorce as ending a valid marriage. Therefore, Stefani couldn’t have a Catholic wedding to Shelton. Her first marriage needed a formal annulment, a process that can take years. She began that process not long after she and Shelton got serious, specifically so their eventual marriage could be recognized by the Church. The Vatican granted the annulment in early 2021, clearing the way for their wedding that summer.

Shelton, for his part, has been open about how the relationship changed him spiritually, even without formally converting. Speaking at the 2022 Country Radio Seminar in Nashville, he credited the way he and Stefani came together as proof of something bigger than coincidence. He has said he has been attending church more regularly since they got together. His belief in God is stronger now than at any other point in his life.

The couple has continued to make their faith visible since the wedding. They have attended Easter Mass together in recent years, despite scrutiny over Stefani’s Catholic prayer app.

So the short answer: Blake Shelton isn’t Catholic, but he married one, in a Catholic ceremony, after his wife-to-be went through the Church’s annulment process to make it happen — and by his own account, that relationship has been the biggest catalyst for his own faith.