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Augustine, the bishop of Hippo Regius (North Africa), is incensed by the Donatist practice of rebaptising converts, even the presbyters and bishops. Augustine, "On the Only Baptism", AD 410/411.
19. [...] Cum eos suscipimus [...] nec eum ipsum errorem suscipimus, quo baptismum Christi etiam apud haereticos regula ecclesiastica custoditum nolunt agnoscere, audent destruere, non dubitant iterare; quin etiam non solum laicos, sed et clericos nec quoslibet clericos, uerum et presbyteros et episcopos, etsi in illis ecclesiis baptizati sunt, quas ipsi apostoli labore proprio fundauerunt, si aliquo modo seductos ad se transferre potuerint, catechumenos faciunt. [...]
 
(ed. Petschenig 1910: 20)
19. [...] When we accept them, [...] we do not accept their error. It is because of this error that they do not want to acknowledge the baptism of Christ that the ecclesiastical rule guards even with the heretics; they dare to destroy baptism, they do not hesitate to repeat it; they make catechumens not only of the lay, but even of the clerics, and no matter what clerics, but even presbyters and bishops (even those who were baptised in the Churches that were established by the work of the Apostles themselves!), if they somehow manage to seduce them to come to their side. [...]
 
(trans. S. Adamiak)
 

Place of event:

Region
  • Latin North Africa
City
  • Hippo Regius

About the source:

Author: Augustine of Hippo
Title: On the Only Baptism, De Unico Baptismo
Origin: Hippo Regius (Latin North Africa)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
In late 410 or early 411 Augustine responded to a Donatist pamphlet claiming, in a simple but convincing way, that there was only one valid baptism, and that it was the Donatist one.
 
Edition:
M. Petschenig ed., Sancti Aureli Augustini Liber de Unico Baptismo, Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum 53, Vienna-Lepizig 1910, 1-34.

Categories:

Religious grouping (other than Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian) - Donatist
    Change of denomination
      Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος
        Theoretical considerations - On church hierarchy
          Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: S. Adamiak, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER927, http://presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=927
          Record by: Stanisław Adamiak
          last edited: 2017-05-26 09:17:47
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