I was baptized at 11 years old, did I need to be confirmed?

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I was baptized at 11 years old, did I need to be confirmed? I remember that many of my friends had gone to confirmation classes but my parents never sent me. I was told that I didn’t need to go to anything because I was baptized later in life and not as an infant. Is that true?
 
You should have been confirmed at the same time you were Baptized.

Canon law requires that anyone over the age of reason ( 7 years old) who is Baptized should also be Confirmed and receive Holy Communion.
 
I wonder who told you that?

I too was baptized as an older child and did not go through the normal confirmation process. So I chose to be confirmed as a young adult. At our parish, there are usually a couple of adult Catholics who are confirmed each year, in addition to the RCIA candidates who are received into the Church.

If you weren’t confirmed you likely didn’t receive any of the religious instruction that precedes it. You should contact your parish priest about this and go through whatever process they have for being confirmed.
 
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I was baptized at 11 years old, did I need to be confirmed? I remember that many of my friends had gone to confirmation classes but my parents never sent me. I was told that I didn’t need to go to anything because I was baptized later in life and not as an infant. Is that true?
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I’m not sure how long ago you were 11 years old.

The norm now is that adults – those over the age of reason – receive all of their sacraments of initiation at one time. That wasn’t always the case.

You might call the parish where you were baptized and ask them to check your sacramental records. You may have been confirmed and simply don’t remember it, or you may not have been confirmed. They can tell you for sure.

If you haven’t been confirmed, check with your parish about adult confirmation. Preparation may be offered in the parish or in the diocese you belong to.
 
Hi,

As far as I am aware, you need to be confirmed. I was baptised at 13 and confirmed at 21. Have a talk with your priest.

God bless
 
I was baptized in 1980. I will contact the parish where I was baptized and go from there…Thank you!!!
 
A couple months ago my friends and I got into a conversation about confirmation. We told each other our saint’s name. One of my friends couldn’t remember. Sure enough, when she looked into it she hadn’t been confirmed. These things happen somehow. People fall through the cracks. I would say request the documents and find out if you have been confirmed, although if you don’t remember picking a saint’s name you probably were not. If you were not, then enjoy the classes and get confirmed next easter!
 
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I was baptized in 1980. I will contact the parish where I was baptized and go from there…Thank you!!!
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You should have have been confirmed if you were baptized in 1980 at the age of 11. However there were still some parishes who were not treating young catechumens as adults unless they had reached the usual age of confirmation for the diocese. By the 1990s most parishes had fully implemented RCIA for younger converts. --at least for those who were being baptized.

There is still a fair amount of variation from parish to parish on how young candidates for full initiation are treated.
 
I’m a cradle Catholic who was baptized as an infant, 1st communion, but never confirmed. I was also married in my Catholic church.

Hmmm… perhaps I should be confirmed. I don’t know.
 
sllhouette said:
A couple months ago my friends and I got into a conversation about confirmation. We told each other our saint’s name. One of my friends couldn’t remember. Sure enough, when she looked into it she hadn’t been confirmed.
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That she couldn’t remember her saint name is not necessarily significant since it’s not a requirement that anyone pick a saint’s name. I’d never even heard of this custom until I was in my mid 40s and moved to the parish where I live now. My kids and I were confirmed in different dioceses, in different provinces, in the 60s and 90s and none of us had to choose saints names.
 
Phemie said:
That she couldn’t remember her saint name is not necessarily significant since it’s not a requirement that anyone pick a saint’s name. I’d never even heard of this custom until I was in my mid 40s and moved to the parish where I live now. My kids and I were confirmed in different dioceses, in different provinces, in the 60s and 90s and none of us had to choose saints names.
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I was received into the Church in 1992, and I too was confirmed under my given name. We had an option to choose a saint name, but at the time I did not do so.
 
UPDATE:
As suggested, I contacted the Parish where I had been baptized . They told me that I had been confirmed at the same time that I was baptized. Thank you all for helping me!!
 
ZoeyBdo said:
I’m a cradle Catholic who was baptized as an infant, 1st communion, but never confirmed. I was also married in my Catholic church.

Hmmm… perhaps I should be confirmed. I don’t know.
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Yes you should be confirmed, if not already you need to seek it. The three sacrements of initiation are; Baptism, Confirmation and Holy Communion.
 
Brendan said:
You should have been confirmed at the same time you were Baptized.

Canon law requires that anyone over the age of reason ( 7 years old) who is Baptized should also be Confirmed and receive Holy Communion.
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Can. 852 §1. The prescripts of the canons on adult baptism are to be applied to all those who, no longer infants, have attained the use of reason.

§2. A person who is not responsible for oneself (non sui compos) is also regarded as an infant with respect to baptism.

In most countries and cultures, 7 is not an age where a person is responsible for them selves. In this case section 2 of this canon allows for the Baptism to be handled as if the person is an infant.

I have baptized children up to 11 years old because the parent chose this for the child and the parent is responsible for the child. After baptism these children can be put into the grade level with their peers to learn the faith and complete the reception of the sacraments.

On the other hand, they may also be entered into RCIA and given all three S of I at the Easter Vigil, it is up to the pastor with approval of the local ordinary. My pastor chooses this route and I tend to agree with him. If the RCIA route is taken, what catechesis is given after Easter to these children? None, in my opinion it is better for all to have these little ones in class learning the faith.
 
thankyoufather said:
UPDATE:
As suggested, I contacted the Parish where I had been baptized . They told me that I had been confirmed at the same time that I was baptized. Thank you all for helping me!!
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YAY! What was your confirmation name?
 
thankyoufather said:
UPDATE:
As suggested, I contacted the Parish where I had been baptized . They told me that I had been confirmed at the same time that I was baptized. Thank you all for helping me!!
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I suggest that you arrange to obtain copies of both your baptismal and confirmation certificates, if you have not already done so. 😉
 
ZoeyBdo said:
I’m a cradle Catholic who was baptized as an infant, 1st communion, but never confirmed. I was also married in my Catholic church.

Hmmm… perhaps I should be confirmed. I don’t know.
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You should be confirmed. I was in a similiar situation. Baptized Catholic as an infant, 1st communion…then my parents left the Church.

I was confirmed last year…I thought it was just a check off the box kind of thing…it was not and was a great gift.

Contact your parish.
 
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