Editing Confirmation (section)

===Anglican Communion===
[[File:Anglican confirmation in Helsinki.jpg|thumb|[[David Hamid]], suffragan bishop in Europe, administering an Anglican Confirmation at the [[Mikael Agricola Church]] in Helsinki]]

Article 25 of the 16th-century [[Thirty-nine Articles]] lists confirmation among those rites "commonly called Sacraments" which are "not to be counted for Sacraments of the Gospel" (a term referring to the dominical sacraments, i.e. baptism and the [[Holy Eucharist]]), because they were not directly instituted by Christ with a specific matter and form, and they are not generally necessary to salvation.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://anglicansonline.org/basics/thirty-nine_articles.html |title=The 39 Articles |access-date=7 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100429054944/http://anglicansonline.org/basics/thirty-nine_articles.html |archive-date=29 April 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> 

In Anglicanism, confirmation is the culmination of [[catechesis|catechetical instruction]] provided to the candidate, an emphasis made prominent under the guiding reformer of the [[English Reformation|Protestant Reformation]] in England, [[Thomas Cranmer]].<ref name="Osmer1996">{{cite book |last1=Osmer |first1=Richard Robert |title=Confirmation: Presbyterian Practices in Ecumenical Perspective |date=1 January 1996 |publisher=Geneva Press |isbn=978-0-664-50000-9 |page=99 |language=en}}</ref> Under the influence of [[Martin Bucer]], the 1548 Catechism emphasized confirmation "as an examination of those who have been instructed in the articles and commandments of the faith and are ready to make a profession of the promises made on their behalf at Baptism."<ref name="Osmer1996"/>

"[T]he renewal of the baptismal vows, which is part of the Anglican Confirmation service, is in no way necessary to Confirmation and can be done more than once.{{nbsp}}... When Confirmation is given early, candidates may be asked to make a fresh renewal of vows when they approach adult life at about eighteen."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.katapi.org.uk/ChristianFaith/LVI.htm|title=The Christian Faith: Ch 56- Confirmation|website=katapi.org.uk|access-date=6 October 2017|archive-date=2 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160602044430/http://www.katapi.org.uk/ChristianFaith/LVI.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> The 1662 ''[[Book of Common Prayer (1662)|Book of Common Prayer]]'' of the [[Church of England]] employs the phrase "ratify and confirm" with respect to these vows which has led to the common conception of confirmation as the renewal of baptismal vows. As with [[Lutheranism|Lutheran theology]], the Anglican prayer book makes it "clear that Baptism involves full initiation into the church, including the gift of the Holy Spirit" and "Confirmation involves prayer for the 'daily increase' of a gift already given."<ref name="Osmer1996"/>

Though confirmation is seen as a [[Rite (Christianity)|rite]] by many Anglicans (especially those of an Evangelical Reformed churchmanship), Anglicans of [[Anglo-Catholicism|Anglo-Catholic]] churchmanship count the confirmation as one of the sacraments. While most provinces of the Anglican Communion do not make provision for ministers other than bishops to administer confirmation, [[presbyters]] can be authorized to do so in certain South Asian provinces, which are [[United and uniting churches|united churches]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.csimichigan.org/PDF/CONFIRMATION.pdf|title=e.g. The Church of South India, Book of Common Worship (2004)|access-date=6 October 2017|archive-date=8 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180508133936/http://www.csimichigan.org/PDF/CONFIRMATION.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> Similarly, the American [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal Church]] recognizes that "those who have previously made a mature public commitment in another Church may be received by the laying on of hands by a Bishop of this Church, rather than confirmed."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.episcopalchurch.org/files/documents/2015_candc.pdf|title=Canons of the General Convention 2015, Title I, Canon 17, Section 1(c)|access-date=6 October 2017|archive-date=10 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180110184220/https://www.episcopalchurch.org/files/documents/2015_candc.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> Furthermore, at its General Convention in 2015 a resolution advancing presbyteral confirmation was referred to committee for further review.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://extranet.generalconvention.org/staff/files/download/15664|title=Journal of the 78th General Convention, 371|access-date=6 October 2017|archive-date=17 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161017051212/https://extranet.generalconvention.org/staff/files/download/15664|url-status=live}}</ref>