Regional Confirmation and Reception Service
Saturday, May 10, 2025, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Regional Confirmation and Reception Service
What is Confirmation
The sacramental rite in which the candidates "express a mature commitment to Christ, and receive strength from the Holy Spirit through prayer and the laying on of hands by a bishop" (BCP, p. 860). Those who were baptized at an early age and those baptized as adults without laying on of hands by a bishop are expected to make a mature public affirmation of their faith, recommit themselves to the responsibilities of their baptism, and receive laying on of hands by a bishop (BCP, p. 412).
What is Reception
For those who have already been confirmed in another tradition with bishops in apostolic succession (see below Candidates for Reception), reception affirms the statement you made in confirmation and welcomes you into communion with the Episcopal Church.
Candidates for Confirmation
Candidates for confirmation should not be presented until they have been regular worshippers and participants in the life if the congregation for at least a year.
All candidates should have been through a proper program of formation and education, preferably in a community of others who are in the same preparation.
Candidates must supply written evidence of their baptism (a certificate or a letter from the church where they were baptized is sufficient, but family memory alone is not adequate) which must be available for the Bishop to examine if necessary.
Candidates for Reception into the Communion of this Church
Candidates for reception should not be presented until they have been regular worshippers and participants in the life if the congregation for at least a year.
All candidates should have been through a proper program of formation and education, preferably in a community of others who are in the same preparation.
Candidates must supply written evidence of their baptism and confirmation (a certificate or a letter from the church where they were baptized and confirmed is sufficient, but family memory alone is not adequate) which must be available for the Bishop to examine if necessary. Only those who have been confirmed in the Roman Catholic Church, the Old Catholic Churches of the Union of Utrecht, or the Evangelical Lutheran Church, or chrismated at their baptism in the Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches, may be received. All others, included those who may have undergone a rite that their former communities may have called “confirmation,” must be confirmed, not received.
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