confirmation

church ceremony where baptism is confirmed in several Christian denominations
Event religious_ceremony Q188613
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confirmation

Summary

confirmation is a religious ceremony[1]. confirmation ranks in the top 10% of religious_ceremony entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,806 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • confirmation's religion is recorded as Christianity[3].
  • confirmation's instance of is recorded as religious ceremony[4].
  • confirmation's Commons category is recorded as Confirmation[5].
  • confirmation's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Confirmation[6].
  • confirmation's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[7].
  • confirmation's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • confirmation's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • confirmation's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • confirmation's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[11].
  • confirmation's described by source is recorded as Q134475250[12].
  • confirmation's different from is recorded as Christianity courses[13].
  • confirmation's different from is recorded as confirmation class[14].
  • confirmation's uses is recorded as chrism[15].

Body

Context

confirmation's instance of is recorded as religious ceremony[4].

Why It Matters

confirmation ranks in the top 10% of religious_ceremony entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,806 views/month).[2] confirmation has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] confirmation is known by 43 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. belapc.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . belapc.org. belapc.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . belapc.org. belapc.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Quora topic id Christian-Confirmation
    Subclass of Q49703
    Instance of
    Instance of religious ceremony
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||2 */ [[Property:P2347]], mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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