Sacraments timeline Polycarp

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If the Didache is anything to go by, it’d be Baptism and the Eucharist. Arguably, you could say Confirmation as well, since Lent was celebrated very early and the Didache didn’t take a convert who wanted to be baptized lightly… it took them awhile. We can infer Marriage, since that was already established for Adam and Eve. And Holy Orders was mentioned throughout the Epistles… and care for the Sick has been there since Jesus.
 
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I don’t know about confession as a specific practice. I believe so. Reconciliation is definitely tied to our whole walk with Christ, and I mentioned healing… so I figured annointing counts with that as well.

So yes, I agree with the above poster who said all 7 🙂
 
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All of the ones we know today were in practice, although the term ‘sacrament’ wasn’t really used until after the Edict of Thessalonika in 380, which made pagan religions illegal in the Roman Empire. Up until that point, ‘sacramentum’ was a Latin term which denoted the worship of the pagan mystery cults like the cults of Isis, Mithras, and Sol Invictus. Afterward, when Pagan sacraments would not be confused with Christian sacraments, it took a great deal of time (until the middle ages) until sacraments were readily identified as the seven we know today.
 
The Church teaches that all seven sacraments were instituted by Christ during His life on earth. We see at least some mention of all of them in the Bible.
 
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