I am a mother and want to know what the minimum age is for being a Godparent – in this case an 11-year-old baptised cousin. Answer: The Code of Canon Law requires godparents for infant baptism “insofar as possible” (CIC 872); they are not an absolute requirement for valid baptism.
Pursuant to the law of the Church, a godparent (or sponsor) must, in pertinent part, “be a Catholic who has been confirmed and has already received the most holy sacrament of the Eucharist and who leads a life of faith in keeping with the function to be taken on” (Can.
