Councils Condemn Those Who Deny Infant Baptism

In the Pelagian controversy, North African councils at Carthage and Mileve (416) rejected Pelagius's teaching, and a council at Carthage (418) condemned anyone who denied that newborn infants should be baptized for the remission of sin. Some later collections credited that canon to Mileve, which is why older histories date it to 416. Infant baptism became binding church law in the catholic West, and the free churches that baptized believers only were increasingly treated as heretics.