| ### QUESTION 67 ### OF THE MINISTERS BY WHOM THE SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM IS CONFERRED ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We have now to consider the ministers by whom the sacrament of Baptism is conferred. And concerning this there are eight points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether it belongs to a deacon to baptize? #### (2) Whether this belongs to a priest, or to a bishop only? #### (3) Whether a layman can confer the sacrament of Baptism? #### (4) Whether a woman can do this? #### (5) Whether an unbaptized person can baptize? #### (6) Whether several can at the same time baptize one and the same person? #### (7) Whether it is essential that someone should raise the person baptized from the sacred font? #### (8) Whether he who raises someone from the sacred font is bound to instruct him? ####  |