Name Change - Name Change On Religious Conversion

Name Change On Religious Conversion

Further information: Religious name

Adherents of various religions change their name upon conversion or confirmation. The name adopted may not have any legal status but will represent their adopted religious beliefs.

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Famous quotes containing the words change, religious and/or conversion:

    “Oh take my Heart, and by that means you’ll prove
    Within too stor’d enough of Love:
    Give me but Yours, I’ll by that change so thrive,
    That Love in all my parts shall live.
    So powerful is this change, it render can,
    My outside Woman, and your inside Man.”
    —Abraham Cowley (1618–1667)

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