Confirmation Certificate Name Change?

[Mar044]

This is strange question but I have my fathers last name but I wish to take on my mothers side of the family because i have been with them my whole life and my father left me as a baby, when I was confirmed I had his last name, if i change my last name, do i go back to the church and get a new one?

i live in canada

thanks

 

[thistle]

This is strange question but I have my fathers last name but I wish to take on my mothers side of the family because i have been with them my whole life and my father left me as a baby, when I was confirmed I had his last name, if i change my last name, do i go back to the church and get a new one?

i live in canada

thanks

No.

 

[silicasandra]

You should record your legal name change with your church so that your records are all kept together, but no, you can’t change the name you had when you received a sacrament. (For instance, I was unmarried when I was received into the Church - when I was married, I didn’t receive a new certificate! My marriage certificate (both legal and church certificate) have my maiden name on them.)

While names are important, they are primarily a legal matter. One of my husband’s friends in college was in a similar situation to you and changed his name during his last semester of study. Because of the timing, the school gave him two diplomas - one with each name. But that was because his graduation occurred around the same time as his name change. If he had graduated several years before, he wouldn’t have received a new diploma retroactively - he justs needs documentation of the name change when it comes up.

 

[kmuestwin]

This is strange question but I have my fathers last name but I wish to take on my mothers side of the family because i have been with them my whole life and my father left me as a baby, when I was confirmed I had his last name, if i change my last name, do i go back to the church and get a new one?

i live in canada

thanks

You can’t get a new one.

 

[Allegra]

This is strange question but I have my fathers last name but I wish to take on my mothers side of the family because i have been with them my whole life and my father left me as a baby, when I was confirmed I had his last name, if i change my last name, do i go back to the church and get a new one?

i live in canada

thanks

If you register your name change with the church you were baptised in and requested a copy of your sacramental records, I would think it would have your current name as well as the name you were baptised with. I don’t see the point in this, however, unless you are trying to get married and the church you are getting married in doesn’t want to accept your sacramental records with your old name on it.

 

[puzzleannie]

This is strange question but I have my fathers last name but I wish to take on my mothers side of the family because i have been with them my whole life and my father left me as a baby, when I was confirmed I had his last name, if i change my last name, do i go back to the church and get a new one?

i live in canada

thanks

In the USA you would first go to the state or county and legally change your name, and get a new birth certificate issued in the new name. You would then take that to your baptismal parish (or where you were confirmed if you were a baptized Christian who later became Catholic through Confirmation). The new name would be entered in the book (the record would not be erased, just amended) and new certificate issued showing the new name, and all sacraments received. the parents as listed on the birth certificate will be the names used on the sacramental certificates. From then on, anytime you asked for a copy of your record it would show only the new name.

the only time the parents’ names would change in the sacramental record is in the case of adoption. the records are never erased, but the new information is entered, and a copy of the legal documentation attached to the record book.

Canada I don’t know, but I presume the same.

do this before you plan to get married if possible. and at least here I think you have to be 18 to legally change your name.