The rebaptism controversy

Disciplinary · 325 · regional

Cyprian of Carthage and Stephen of Rome disagreed, sharply, about whether a baptism given outside the church's communion is a baptism at all.

How it ended. Nicaea settled it by cases rather than by principle: some bodies are received without rebaptism and some only with it.

How it ran

325 — First Council of Nicaea (where it was settled). Receives some bodies without rebaptism and others only with it.

What was at issue

Baptism outside the Church is void what was at issue

Who stood in it

Cyprian a principal

After The Seven Ecumenical Councils (NPNF series 2 vol. 14) · Nicaea I (325), canon 19.