{"id":167224,"date":"2026-05-21T11:15:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=167224"},"modified":"2026-05-21T11:15:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:15:26","slug":"bts-v-wanted-to-attend-a-catholic-church-to-receive-a-baptismal-name-in-the-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/bts-v-wanted-to-attend-a-catholic-church-to-receive-a-baptismal-name-in-the-army\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS&#8217; V wanted to attend a Catholic church to receive a baptismal name in the army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent live stream with members, <strong>BTS<\/strong>&#8216; <strong>V<\/strong> wanted to attend a Catholic church to receive a baptismal name in the army\u00a0alongside soldier companions.<\/p>\n<p>On May 19th, the K-Pop idols went live with <strong>RM<\/strong>, <strong>J-Hope<\/strong>, and <strong>Jimin<\/strong>, who ate together while answering ARMYs&#8217; questions, but they also took that opportunity to share some military stories from their experiences fulfilling their duty.<\/p>\n<p>V started his story explaining to his members that <strong><em>&#8220;In boot camp you can try out all religious services: church, Catholic Church, and Buddhist temple&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> and that he wanted to try them all during his stay, in particular because the Catholic Church gives you a baptismal name immediately.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I really wanted to receive one (baptism name). Since I didn\u2019t know much, I studied about it (baptism).&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Taehyung sharing how he visited the Catholic Church in Military to get baptized <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc2f: In boot camp you can try out all religious services; Church, Catholic Church and Buddhist temple <br \/>\ud83d\udc2f: I wanted to try them all <br \/>\ud83d\udc2f: In boot camp the Catholic Church gives you your baptismal name\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xRLyoJk0Yl\">pic.twitter.com\/xRLyoJk0Yl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TG (@taeguide) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/taeguide\/status\/2057214354869666229?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 20, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Later, the BTS member asked his unit if anyone wanted to go to Catholic services with him. When they asked him, <strong><em>&#8220;What will we get if we go?&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> he responded,<strong><em> &#8220;You get bread there,&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> convincing his companions, who accepted going with him.<\/p>\n<p>V revealed he <strong><em>&#8220;managed to gather around 8 people to go with me,&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> and he stood up to make a demonstration to his member as he said, <strong><em>&#8220;While marching, I told them I&#8217;d receive a baptismal name. What about you guys?&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to him, one of his unit members said he wanted to be named <strong>Mordekaiser<\/strong>, a <strong>League of Legends<\/strong> game character&#8217;s name, which made his members laugh, but that was not all due to other companions saying he wanted <strong>Miss Fortune<\/strong> and another wanted <strong>Lux<\/strong>. He concluded by explaining that they could not choose those names:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You guys can\u2019t create your own names; that\u2019s not how the concept of baptism works.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although it is unclear if the BTS member actually did get baptized in the Church, Korean netizens believe they may have discovered his baptismal name, <strong>Dionysius<\/strong>, based on the idol&#8217;s name used on the Goondori military app and in honor of <strong>Saint Dionysius<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-167228\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Vs-baptismal-name-may-have-been-revealed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Vs-baptismal-name-may-have-been-revealed.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Vs-baptismal-name-may-have-been-revealed-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Vs-baptismal-name-may-have-been-revealed-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Vs-baptismal-name-may-have-been-revealed-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Vs-baptismal-name-may-have-been-revealed-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Vs-baptismal-name-may-have-been-revealed-860x484.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent live stream with members, BTS&#8216; V wanted to attend a Catholic church to receive a baptismal name in the army\u00a0alongside soldier companions. On May 19th, the K-Pop idols went live with RM, J-Hope, and Jimin, who ate together while answering ARMYs&#8217; questions, but they also took that opportunity to share some military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":167229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[49,1712],"tmauthors":[3732],"class_list":{"0":"post-167224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kpop","8":"category-news","9":"tag-bts","10":"tag-v-taehyung"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167231,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167224\/revisions\/167231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167224"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=167224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}