English-Portuguese translations for baptism

• baptismo
  O meu baptismo - e espero que não seja baptismo de fogo - tem lugar amanhã de manhã. My baptism - and I hope it will not be a baptism of fire - will take place tomorrow evening.
  Para ele, como novo Comissário, foi um verdadeiro baptismo de fogo.He has had rather a baptism of fire as a new Commissioner.
  Saúdo também a contribuição eficaz da Presidência eslovena que, para o seu baptismo de fogo, foi confrontada com um dossiê verdadeiramente espinhoso.I also commend the Slovenian Presidency for its effective contribution. It was given a baptism of fire by being faced with a really thorny issue.
• batismo
• batizado

Definition of baptism

• A Christian sacrament, by which one is received into a church and sometimes given a name, generally involving the candidate to be anointed with or submerged in water

Related words

• baptismal
• pedobaptism
• paedobaptism
• rebaptism
• debaptism
• Anabaptism
• credobaptism
• baptism of fire
• baptism by fire