Chrismation
Sign in to savethumb|Syro-Malabar Catholic Major Archbishop crowning a baby during chrismation
~9 min read
Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- Liturgical form
- Eastern Orthodox Church
- Common part of the rite
- As part of the baptismal rite
- At the reconciliation of apostates
- At the reception of certain converts
- Oriental Orthodox churches
- Sacramental theology
- Eastern Churches
- Oriental Orthodox
- Assyrian Church of the East
- See also
- References
- Notes
- Bibliography
thumb|Syro-Malabar Catholic Major Archbishop crowning a baby during chrismation
Chrismation consists of the sacrament or mystery in the initiation rites of Eastern Christianity as practiced in the Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Churches, Assyrian Church of the East and Eastern Catholic churches. The sacrament is more commonly known in Western Christianity as confirmation, although some languages such as Italian, Maltese and Portuguese normally use the terms cresima, griżma (tal-isqof) and crisma ("chrismation") rather than confermazione, konferma or confirmação, respectively ("confirmation").
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chrismation” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.