confirmand

noun

1. A candidate for confirmation or affirmation of baptism.

   “The preacher then tells the confirmands, that as a token of their full consent to the confession just made, each of them should kiss the Scroll of the Law.”

   “In confirmation the confirmand confesses his faith and expresses a willingness to accept and obey Jesus Christ as his Lord; and the Christian Church confirms the worthiness of the confirmand to partake of the fellowship and heavenly blessings which this new relation called church-membership involves.”

   “These persons are recruited from a list of several, active adults in the church that is submitted by each confirmand.”