Birth Certificate Requirement for Confirmation?

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Filling out the packet for daughter’s confirmation. Church wants a copy of her birth certificate. Can’t imagine why. Ideas?
 
Are you certain that they’re not asking for her baptismal record, rather than birth certificate?
 
I would imagine it is to verify her identity. If she was not baptized in the parish where she will be confirmed you will probably have to provide a baptismal certificate too.
 
Nurse_Joy said:
Filling out the packet for daughter’s confirmation. Church wants a copy of her birth certificate. Can’t imagine why. Ideas?
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I’ve never ever heard of this requirement. It should be baptismal certificate. Typo on the form maybe? Call the parish.
 
Baptismal was on the list and would not have caught my eye as being a little weird. .
 
Sadly, I would imagine that there are people who use false information.
 
When I was baptized in 2015, I had to provide my birth certificate. I don’t remember the explanation why, but it’s required in a lot of dioceses I believe.
 
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Filling out the packet for daughter’s confirmation. Church wants a copy of her birth certificate. Can’t imagine why. Ideas?
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My guess is baptismal certificate; when she is confirmed, it will be noted and sent back tot he original (baptismal) parish.
 
Nurse_Joy said:
Filling out the packet for daughter’s confirmation. Church wants a copy of her birth certificate. Can’t imagine why. Ideas?
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As long as she WAS born, shouldn’t be a problem, right!! God Bless, Memaw
 
My guess is because the parish is required to keep records of Confirmation. For them to reliably do so they need to ensure the person they say was confirmed in their parish is really that person. I would assume this would have already been accomplished at Baptism but if the person was Baptized in a non-Catholic church then they may not have already verified you are who you say you are. If your kid was Baptized Catholic then maybe it is just a blanket requirement so the chances of anybody falling through the cracks and not verifying their identity to ensure the parish records are accurate is minimized or eliminated.
 
We ask for birth certificates and some times court documents if there is a name change after baptism. Other than that I can’t think of a reason why a birth certificate would be needed.

When I went through RCIA I did provide my birth certificate because my baptism certificate had my date of birth wrong. It was the right day & year but had the month wrong.
 
newcalling said:
When I was baptized in 2015, I had to provide my birth certificate. I don’t remember the explanation why, but it’s required in a lot of dioceses I believe.
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When I worked in a parish office and managed the baptism schedule, I always had to request a birth certificate from all families, mostly to verify spelling of names and who the parents are. It amazed me how many parents didn’t spell their children’s names correctly on our intake form when compared to the birth certificate. Also, if, for example, the mother did not have a good relationship with the father of the child and was in a relationship with another man, she might put the name of this other man on the intake form instead of the child’s biological father. That was not permitted and in order for a man other than the biological father to be listed on the baptismal record, he would have to be listed on some sort of legal document as the father of the child (by adoption, for example).

But I don’t know why it would be needed for Confirmation as that information should have been verified at the time of baptism, making the baptismal certificate accurate.
 
I was baptized, confirmed, and received my first Holy Communion as an adult. All I had to do was tell the priest my name (well, RCIA, too)
 
Some “big city” diocese in the U.S. require the priest to see a birth certificate to verify that those claiming to be the parents of the child are in-fact the parents, or those who have legal custody.

It’s done (in part) because of relatives, or others who do not have actual custody of the children bringing the children for baptism or other sacraments without the parents’ knowledge.

If the parish says they want a copy of the birth certificate, then that means they want a copy of the birth certificate.
 
FrDavid96 said:
Some “big city” diocese in the U.S. require the priest to see a birth certificate to verify that those claiming to be the parents of the child are in-fact the parents, or those who have legal custody.

It’s done (in part) because of relatives, or others who do not have actual custody of the children bringing the children for baptism or other sacraments without the parents’ knowledge.

If the parish says they want a copy of the birth certificate, then that means they want a copy of the birth certificate.
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AMEN!!. God Bless, Memaw
 
If I were to have kids I doubt I would “register” them to the state, so no birth certificates for them. Not sure how the Church could need something of you that isn’t actually required, despite what everyone seems to believe. Their births are best off recorded in the family bible.
 
The only reason why I think they require
a Birth Certificate is if your daughter was
born in another country.
 
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