The person performing the Nikah should be a pious person and if its a near relative then that is best.

Like Joseph Haydn, he was a pious, reticent, and private person.

He was one of the pious persons of his time.

While he was an opponent to the Hasidic movement, the term itself means "pious person" and is used here without reference to the movement.

It seems to me he is an enormously righteous person and a pious person.

Our workers in general, wherever they go, should make efforts to visit the righteous Ulema and pious persons.

He was a pious person devoted to peaceful arts and public works.

According to the inscriptions found, Antiochus appears to have been a pious person and had a generous spirit.

Who was a pious and religious person of great stature and respect.

In September 1550, he set out to roam throughout the whole of Lombardy where 'pious persons provided for his basic needs.