Confirmation

Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first denomination in the United States founded by Black people. Confirmation is the profession of faith by which a baptised person is received into full membership, and it is not held to be a sacrament.

Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Confirmation is the profession of faith by which a baptised person is received into full membership, and it is not held to be a sacrament.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. Confirmation is conferred by a bishop at an age of discretion, and the Prayer Book requires the candidate to renew the promises made at baptism in person.

Confirmation is conferred by a bishop at an age of discretion, and the Prayer Book requires the candidate to renew the promises made at baptism in person.

Kept in the Armenian Apostolic Church. Chrismation is given with baptism in infancy, using myron consecrated by the patriarch, and is not a separate later rite.

Kept in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. Confirmation is the profession of faith by which a baptised person is received into full membership, and it is not held to be a sacrament.

Kept in the Church of Cyprus, autocephalous since the Council of Ephesus in 431. Chrismation is given with baptism, in infancy, by a presbyter using chrism consecrated by a bishop. The rite completes initiation here rather than following it years later.

Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes. Confirmation is conferred by a bishop at an age of discretion, and the Prayer Book requires the candidate to renew the promises made at baptism in person.

Kept in the Church of Greece. Chrismation is given with baptism, in infancy, by a presbyter using chrism consecrated by a bishop. The rite completes initiation here rather than following it years later.

Kept in the Church of Ireland. Confirmation is conferred by a bishop at an age of discretion, and the Prayer Book requires the candidate to renew the promises made at baptism in person.

Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did. Confirmation was kept as a rite of the church and denied the standing of a sacrament, since it has no command of Christ and no promise of grace attached to an outward sign.

Kept in the Church of the Nazarene, which stands in the Wesleyan holiness line. Confirmation is the profession of faith by which a baptised person is received into full membership, and it is not held to be a sacrament.

Kept in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. Chrismation is given with baptism in infancy, using myron consecrated by the patriarch, and is not a separate later rite.

Chrismation is given with baptism, in infancy, by a presbyter using chrism consecrated by a bishop. The rite completes initiation here rather than following it years later.

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Chrismation is given with baptism, in infancy, by a presbyter using chrism consecrated by a bishop. The rite completes initiation here rather than following it years later.

Kept in the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Chrismation is given with baptism in infancy, using myron consecrated by the patriarch, and is not a separate later rite.

Kept in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Chrismation is given with baptism in infancy, using myron consecrated by the patriarch, and is not a separate later rite.

Kept in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Confirmation was kept as a rite of the church and denied the standing of a sacrament, since it has no command of Christ and no promise of grace attached to an outward sign.

Kept in the Free Methodist Church. Confirmation is the profession of faith by which a baptised person is received into full membership, and it is not held to be a sacrament.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century. Chrismation is given with baptism, in infancy, by a presbyter using chrism consecrated by a bishop. The rite completes initiation here rather than following it years later.

Kept in the Global Methodist Church, formed in 2022. Confirmation is the profession of faith by which a baptised person is received into full membership, and it is not held to be a sacrament.

Kept in the Greek Orthodox churches. Chrismation is given with baptism, in infancy, by a presbyter using chrism consecrated by a bishop. The rite completes initiation here rather than following it years later.

Confirmation was kept as a rite of the church and denied the standing of a sacrament, since it has no command of Christ and no promise of grace attached to an outward sign.

Chrismation is given with baptism by the priest, not deferred to a bishop and a later age.

Confirmation is the profession of faith by which a baptised person is received into full membership, and it is not held to be a sacrament.

Confirmation admits a baptised person to communion.

Chrismation is given with baptism in infancy, using myron consecrated by the patriarch, and is not a separate later rite.

Confirmation is separated from baptism and is ordinarily conferred by a bishop at an age of discretion, which is the point on which the Western and Eastern practice divide.

Kept in the Romanian Orthodox Church, the one Orthodox church of the Byzantine tradition whose language is Romance. Chrismation is given with baptism, in infancy, by a presbyter using chrism consecrated by a bishop. The rite completes initiation here rather than following it years later.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. Chrismation is given with baptism, in infancy, by a presbyter using chrism consecrated by a bishop. The rite completes initiation here rather than following it years later.

Kept in the Serbian Orthodox Church. Chrismation is given with baptism, in infancy, by a presbyter using chrism consecrated by a bishop. The rite completes initiation here rather than following it years later.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. Confirmation is conferred by a bishop at an age of discretion, and the Prayer Book requires the candidate to renew the promises made at baptism in person.

Kept in the United Methodist Church. Confirmation is the profession of faith by which a baptised person is received into full membership, and it is not held to be a sacrament.

Chrismation is given with baptism by the presbyter, using myron, as in the Orthodox churches and unlike Latin practice.

Kept in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Chrismation is given with baptism, in infancy, by a presbyter using chrism consecrated by a bishop. The rite completes initiation here rather than following it years later.

Kept in the Wesleyan Church. Confirmation is the profession of faith by which a baptised person is received into full membership, and it is not held to be a sacrament.

In the Latin church confirmation is the ordinary office of the bishop.

Confirmation in the Church of England is administered by a bishop.

There is no confirmation, since baptism is already the act of an adult will.

There is no confirmation, since the profession of faith precedes baptism rather than following it years after.

Kept in the National Baptist Convention of America International. There is no confirmation, since the profession of faith precedes baptism rather than following it years after.

Kept in the Progressive National Baptist Convention. There is no confirmation, since the profession of faith precedes baptism rather than following it years after.

There is no confirmation, since there is no initiating rite for it to complete.

The Catholic Charismatic Renewal reads confirmation as the sacramental place where the baptism in the Spirit it seeks was already given, so that what is sought is a release of what was conferred rather than a second sacrament.