Wikipedia's article on the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church, consulted 2026-08-11.
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Wikipedia's article on the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church, the lower tier reflecting a crowd sourced, continuously edited encyclopedia entry rather than a peer reviewed or institutional source. It is useful here for a well referenced general summary of the sacramental system, and is cited for corroborated factual detail rather than for interpretation. NotesWikipedia's article on the sacraments of the Catholic Church, consulted 2026-08-11. A perpetually community-edited reference page rather than a peer-reviewed publication, and here narrowly Catholic in scope, so it is used only for what it actually covers: the Council of Trent (1545-1563) binding the count of exactly seven sacraments as doctrine, and the return by some United States Latin Church dioceses during the second half of the 2010s to the original ordering of baptism, confirmation and first Communion, reversing a practice introduced after Pope Pius X's 1910 decree. Nothing about Orthodox or Protestant sacramental counts is drawn from this source, since the article does not cover them.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacraments_of_the_Catholic_Church
Source Typereference
Claims Backed By This Source (12 claims)
This source backs 12 claims across the atlas. As facts: 11 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Practices, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
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