Title: Sacrament - Wikipedia
Headings: Sacrament
Sacrament
Contents
Etymology
Catholicism
Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy
Hussite Church and Moravian Church
Lutheranism
Anglicanism and Methodism
Reformed (Continental Reformed, Congregationalist, and Presbyterian)
Irvingism
Latter-day Saints
Other traditions
Non-sacramental churches
References
External links

Content: Contents
1 Etymology
2 Catholicism
3 Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy
4 Hussite Church and Moravian Church
5 Lutheranism
6 Anglicanism and Methodism
7 Reformed (Continental Reformed, Congregationalist, and Presbyterian)
8 Irvingism
9 Latter-day Saints
10 Other traditions
10.1 Non-sacramental churches
11 References
12 External links
Etymology
The English word " sacrament " is derived indirectly from the Ecclesiastical Latin sacrāmentum, from Latin sacrō ("hallow, consecrate"), from sacer ("sacred, holy"). This in turn is derived from the Greek New Testament word "mysterion". In Ancient Rome, the term meant a soldier's oath of allegiance. Tertullian, a 3rd-century Christian writer, suggested that just as the soldier's oath was a sign of the beginning of a new life, so too was initiation into the Christian community through baptism and Eucharist. Catholicism
Main article: Sacraments of the Catholic Church
The Council of Trent defined the seven sacraments. Roman Catholic theology enumerates seven sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation (Chrismation), Eucharist (Communion), Penance (Reconciliation, Confession), Matrimony (Marriage), Holy Orders (ordination to the diaconate, priesthood, or episcopate) and Anointing of the Sick (before the Second Vatican Council generally called Extreme Unction). The list of seven sacraments already given by the Second Council of Lyon (1274) and the Council of Florence (1439) was reaffirmed by the Council of Trent (1545–1563), which stated: CANON I. – If any one saith, that the sacraments of the New Law were not all instituted by Jesus Christ, our Lord;