Confirmation in the Catholic Church

The Seven Sacraments Altarpiece, by Rogier van der Weyden, depicting a Latin Church bishop administering confirmation in the 14th century
The sacrament of confirmation by Pietro Longhi

Confirmation in the Catholic Church is one of the seven sacraments.[1] It is also one of the three sacraments of initiation into the Catholic Church, the other two being Baptism and First Communion.[2]

  1. ^ Oregon Catholic Press What is Confirmation?
  2. ^ The Holy See. "Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church", Part 2, Section 2. The Seven Sacraments of the Church. 2005.

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