Day 178: Who Receives Confirmation?

Every baptized person not yet confirmed can and should receive the sacrament of Confirmation. Since Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist form a unity, it follows that "the faithful are obliged to receive this sacrament at the appropriate time," for without Confirmation and Eucharist, Baptism is certainly valid and efficacious, but Christian initiation remains incomplete. CCC 1306

In today's reading, the Catechism discusses who may receive Confirmation and who is the minister for this sacrament. Any baptized person may receive Confirmation once, as long as they are in a state of grace. As for the minister of this sacrament, the Catechism Compendium summarizes this part:

The original minister of Confirmation is the bishop. In this way, the link between the confirmed and the Church in her apostolic dimension is made manifest. When a priest confers this sacrament, as ordinarily happens in the East and in special cases in the West, the link with the bishop and with the Church is expressed by the priest who is the collaborator of the bishop and by the Sacred Chrism, consecrated by the bishop himself. (#270)

If there is a danger of impending death, any priest can give a candidate Confirmation.

I like what the Catechism Companion, Vol II says on this:

Confirmation is first and foremost God's confirmation of his choice of us. It is his gift of the Spirit, deepening the grace given to us in Baptism. Both Baptism and Confirmation are given only once because God seals us with the gift of the Holy Spirit - and he does not take back this gift. (p. 121)