This minutes document records the detailed deliberations and consensus among eighty-seven bishops during the Seventh Council of Carthage on the issue of baptizing heretics.
The bishops emphasize that heretics, lacking true faith and authority, cannot confer valid baptism, and therefore those who come from heresy must be rebaptized in the Catholic Church to attain salvation.
The council upholds the doctrine that there is only one authentic baptism, administered within the Church by authorized bishops, and condemns heretical baptisms as false and invalid, asserting the necessity of rebaptizing heretics upon their conversion.
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