TLC: Brazilian Churches Agree on Mutual Recognition of Baptism
November 27, 2007

The Anglican Church of Brazil was one of five signatories to an ecumenical document which mutually recognizes the validity of baptism among five branches of the Christian faith.

The five churches have agreed that “re-baptism” is not necessary when a person changes affiliation from one branch to another. In the document the five agree that “the baptism instituted by Christ is fundamentally a free gift of God,” the signatories also “accept the baptism as basic link of the unity that is given by the faith in the same Lord.”

In addition to the Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil (IEAB), the churches are: the Roman Catholic Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Presbyterian United Church and the Syrian Orthodox Church. the rest