Baptism

The dispute turned on whether baptism conferred by such a bishop was valid. The Donatists held that it was not, and rebaptised.

Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first denomination in the United States founded by Black people. Baptism is administered by sprinkling, pouring or immersion, the mode being left to the person receiving it, which is unusual among the churches that baptise infants.

Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Baptism is administered by sprinkling, pouring or immersion, the mode being left to the person receiving it, which is unusual among the churches that baptise infants.

Baptism is by immersion, of those who profess faith, ordinarily in a river.

Baptism is received on joining the church as an adult, and it is the moment at which the discipline of the community becomes binding.

Baptism is given on confession of faith, and the Schleitheim articles put it first among the seven.

Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. Baptism is ordinarily by pouring, and the Articles call it a sign of regeneration by which the promises of forgiveness are visibly signed and sealed.

Baptism is ordinarily by pouring, and the Articles call it a sign of regeneration by which the promises of forgiveness are visibly signed and sealed.

Kept in the Armenian Apostolic Church. Baptism is by threefold immersion and is followed at once by chrismation and communion.

Baptism is followed by the signing with oil.

Baptism is the immersion of a believer in water, and it is an ordinance rather than a sacrament: an act of obedience and a public testimony, not a means by which grace is conveyed.

Baptism is by pouring or sprinkling, and the Confession states plainly that dipping is not necessary.

Kept in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. Baptism is administered by sprinkling, pouring or immersion, the mode being left to the person receiving it, which is unusual among the churches that baptise infants.

Kept in the Church of Cyprus, autocephalous since the Council of Ephesus in 431. Baptism is by threefold immersion, and is followed immediately by chrismation and communion in the same service.

Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes. Baptism is ordinarily by pouring, and the Articles call it a sign of regeneration by which the promises of forgiveness are visibly signed and sealed.

Baptism is by immersion, following profession of faith.

Kept in the Church of Greece. Baptism is by threefold immersion, and is followed immediately by chrismation and communion in the same service.

Kept in the Church of Ireland. Baptism is ordinarily by pouring, and the Articles call it a sign of regeneration by which the promises of forgiveness are visibly signed and sealed.

Kept in the Church of Scotland, the established Presbyterian church of that country. Baptism is by pouring or sprinkling, and the Confession states plainly that dipping is not necessary.

Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did. Baptism is necessary to salvation and by it the grace of God is offered, and the Augsburg Confession condemns those who teach that children are saved without it.

Kept in the Church of the Nazarene, which stands in the Wesleyan holiness line. Baptism is administered by sprinkling, pouring or immersion, the mode being left to the person receiving it, which is unusual among the churches that baptise infants.

Baptism is by immersion and is held to be for the remission of sins rather than a testimony to a forgiveness already received, which sets this body apart from most of the immersionist tradition.

Kept in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. Baptism is by threefold immersion and is followed at once by chrismation and communion.

Baptism is by immersion, of those who have confessed faith, and this body was founded on the argument that the New Testament pattern requires it.

Kept in the Dutch Reformed tradition, which holds the Heidelberg Catechism among its confessional standards. Baptism is by pouring or sprinkling, and the Confession states plainly that dipping is not necessary.

Baptism is by threefold immersion, and is followed immediately by chrismation and communion in the same service.

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Baptism is by threefold immersion, and is followed immediately by chrismation and communion in the same service.

Kept in the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Baptism is by threefold immersion and is followed at once by chrismation and communion.

Kept in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Baptism is by threefold immersion and is followed at once by chrismation and communion.

Kept in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Baptism is necessary to salvation and by it the grace of God is offered, and the Augsburg Confession condemns those who teach that children are saved without it.

Kept in the Free Methodist Church. Baptism is administered by sprinkling, pouring or immersion, the mode being left to the person receiving it, which is unusual among the churches that baptise infants.

Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century. Baptism is by threefold immersion, and is followed immediately by chrismation and communion in the same service.

Kept in the Global Methodist Church, formed in 2022. Baptism is administered by sprinkling, pouring or immersion, the mode being left to the person receiving it, which is unusual among the churches that baptise infants.

Kept in the Greek Orthodox churches. Baptism is by threefold immersion, and is followed immediately by chrismation and communion in the same service.

Baptism is administered by this church in its own form. Its founder's original baptism of converts, and the colonial authorities' reaction to it, are part of the church's founding history.

Baptism is necessary to salvation and by it the grace of God is offered, and the Augsburg Confession condemns those who teach that children are saved without it.

Baptism is followed at once by chrismation with the holy myron.

Baptism follows instruction and profession and is ordinarily by pouring rather than immersion, which distinguishes Mennonite practice from Baptist.

Baptism is administered by sprinkling, pouring or immersion, the mode being left to the person receiving it, which is unusual among the churches that baptise infants.

Baptism is administered to infants and to adults, and this church has held from the beginning that the mode is not worth dividing over.

Kept in the National Baptist Convention of America International. Baptism is the immersion of a believer in water, and it is an ordinance rather than a sacrament: an act of obedience and a public testimony, not a means by which grace is conveyed.

Baptism is by full threefold immersion, insisted on strictly, and a baptism by pouring is not accepted.

Baptism is by threefold immersion and is followed at once by chrismation and communion.

Baptism is administered in the presence of the congregation and not privately, since it admits a person to the visible church.

Kept in the Progressive National Baptist Convention. Baptism is the immersion of a believer in water, and it is an ordinance rather than a sacrament: an act of obedience and a public testimony, not a means by which grace is conveyed.

Baptism is the gateway sacrament, ordinarily by pouring rather than immersion, and in an emergency it may be conferred validly by any person, including one who is not baptised.

Kept in the Romanian Orthodox Church, the one Orthodox church of the Byzantine tradition whose language is Romance. Baptism is by threefold immersion, and is followed immediately by chrismation and communion in the same service.

Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. Baptism is by threefold immersion, and is followed immediately by chrismation and communion in the same service.

Baptism is followed at once by chrismation.

Kept in the Serbian Orthodox Church. Baptism is by threefold immersion, and is followed immediately by chrismation and communion in the same service.

A deacon is also an ordinary minister of baptism in the Latin church.

A minister administers baptism in the Reformed and free-church traditions.

A pastor administers baptism in the Protestant churches.

A priest is an ordinary minister of baptism in the Latin church.

Baptism is understood as purification of thought and is not performed with water.

Friends practise no outward baptism with water, holding that the baptism Christ gives is inward and that a sign of it adds nothing. This is not the neglect of a rite but the considered refusal of one.

Baptism in these churches is commonly by immersion in running water, in a river or the sea, and it is understood to cleanse and to heal as well as to admit, which the mission churches' font did not claim to do.

Salvationists have not observed corporate water baptism or the Lord's Supper since 1883, holding that grace is received directly by faith rather than through outward rites.

Christian baptism descends historically from Mikveh Immersion.