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Who is the right person to email about my Catholic documents such as my First Communion Certificate and Baptismal Certificate. Is there a document issued for First Confession ?. I want to have scans of these sent to me so I can print them out.
 
For each you need to contact the parish in which you were baptised and the one where you received First Confession and Holy Communion (in our parish nowadays there is a certificate for First Confession, back when I made my FC, there was no certificate, only for First Communion and also Confirmation). If you have been Confirmed, obtain your Confirmation certificate also from the parish of your Confirmation as this is a very important document also.
 
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Who is the right person to email about my Catholic documents such as my First Communion Certificate and Baptismal Certificate. Is there a document issued for First Confession ?. I want to have scans of these sent to me so I can print them out.
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This is a request that’s usually made by mail. Not every parish necessarily can or does scan and email church records, especially because such record extracts typically need to be originals with an embossed seal.
 
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Who is the right person to email about my Catholic documents such as my First Communion Certificate and Baptismal Certificate. Is there a document issued for First Confession ?. I want to have scans of these sent to me so I can print them out.
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I’m curious as to why would someone need a copy of these? by the way there will be no record of your first confession or any subsequent ones for that matter, only in scientology do they keep those records
 
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Who is the right person to email about my Catholic documents such as my First Communion Certificate and Baptismal Certificate. Is there a document issued for First Confession ?. I want to have scans of these sent to me so I can print them out.
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I had a heck of a time finding my Baptismal certificate, but finally got the whole diocese of San Diego involved and - voila! - finally found it as it was needed for Confirmation (some time back, of course!).

I know that there were no ‘certificates’ for first Communion, first Confession, etc… at least back in my time.

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One would need these certificates to enter religious life. Certainly, in my case anyway, copies were sufficient for religious life. I wrote to the parish concerned and copies were sent out to me.
 
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I’m curious as to why would someone need a copy of these? by the way there will be no record of your first confession or any subsequent ones for that matter, only in scientology do they keep those records
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This is correct in my experience. The parish will only record baptism, confirmation and marriage in their official records. If one has been confirmed, then First Confession and First Holy Communion are checked out prior to Confirmation - or this used to be the case.

If one is confirmed and married outside of one’s baptismal parish, then the parish that confirms and the one that marries sends advice to the original baptismal parish with advice of date of birth and baptism.

In our parish today, First Confession and First Holy Communion certificates are handed out - but not recorded in parish records.
 
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