I believe you are right but on just a personal note on our family......two of our siblings ages 14 and 15 were godparents to one of my sons in 1968, my cousin age 15 was godmother to my oldest in 1966, and our oldest son aged 10, was godfather to our youngest in 1977. These were in three different parishes in California. There was no mention of any problem with their ages at the baptisms.
It would be interesting to look at our Azorean records as we could figure this out many times if we have extracted the records of the siblings of the parents as they were so often the godparents.....one of those rainy day projects, LOL. Susan Vargas Murphy Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 8, 2016, at 8:12 AM, Joanne Mercier <[email protected]> wrote: > > According the Roman Catholic Code of Canon Law the age is 16 unless a bishop > establishes it otherwise. This has been in effect for centuries and remains > so today. > >> On Feb 7, 2016, at 10:24 PM, Sme <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello. >> >> Does anyone know or have a good guess as to what age "children" were able to >> act as godparents in a baptism in the 1600s and up? >> >> Thank you. >> Suzanne >> >> -- >> For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail >> (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right >> that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Azores Genealogy" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores. > > -- > For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right > that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Azores Genealogy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores. -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores.
