Sentence:  According to a newspaper report of the 1961 statistics of the Church of England , the `` total of <WSD>confirmed</WSD> members is 9748000 , but only 2887671 are registered on the parochial church rolls '' , and `` over 27 million people in England are baptized into the Church of England , but roughly only a tenth of them continue '' . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  having been established or made firm or received the rite of confirmation