confirmation
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Confirmation is a religious ceremony in which an elder lays hands on a person (called a confirmand) as a formal recognition of their faith commitment, commonly practiced in Lutheran and other Christian traditions. The ritual matters to believers as a significant milestone that publicly affirms their relationship with their faith community.
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- Scriptural foundation
- Christian denominational views
- Catholic Church
- Rite of confirmation in the West
- Effects of confirmation
- Tradition
- Eastern Churches
- Lutheran Churches
- Anglican Communion
- Methodist Churches
- Presbyterian, Congregationalist and Continental Reformed Churches
- Irvingian Churches
- United Protestant Churches
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Confirmation name
- Repetition of the sacrament or rite
- Analogous ceremonies in non-Christian practice
- Judaism
- Secular confirmations
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
right|thumb|upright|A stained glass representation of a Lutheran confirmation. An elder lays hands on the confirmand.
In Christian denominations that practice infant baptism, confirmation is seen as the sealing of the covenant created in baptism. Those being confirmed are known as confirmands. The ceremony typically involves laying on of hands.