Also means
denomination
Usage Note
Confesión covers both the legal/personal sense ('admission of guilt') and the religious sacrament of confession in Catholicism (el sacramento de la confesión). It also means 'religious denomination': de confesión protestante ('of Protestant denomination'). The verb is confesar and the agent noun is confesor ('confessor/priest').
Examples
"Hizo su confesión ante el juez."
Natural Translation
He made his confession before the judge.

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