plural of confessionary

A chair, or rather booth, in various constructional variations, typically in church or chapel, where the confessor, seated in one compartment, can privately (to protect the sacred secret of the sacrament) hear confession from the person in the other

To fix religious beliefs into set categories of denomination or dogma.

A person who confesses / A priest who hears confession / An advocate of confessionalism

Having no confession (formal creed)

plural of confessionalist

plural of confessione

With regard to religious confession; denominationally, religiously.

(ecclesiastical, chiefly historical) The fixing of religious beliefs into set categories of denomination or dogma.

One professing a certain faith.