Hippolytus
Friday, July 14, 2023
7:53 AM
Hippolytus of Rome was a Christian Bishop and Leader who was born in Rome around 170 CE and died 235 CE.  In his work Apostolic Tradition, Hippolytus provided a detailed description of the ordination of Bishops, Elders, Deacons, as well as the Baptism of new Christians.  
¹¹Then, after these things, let him give him over to the presbyter[113] who baptizes, and let the candidates stand in the water, naked, a deacon going with them likewise.[114] ¹²And when he who is being baptized goes down into the water, he who baptizes him, putting his hand on him, shall say thus:
Dost thou believe in God, the Father Almighty?[115]
¹³And he who is being baptized shall say:
I believe.
¹⁴Then
LATholding his hand placed on his head, he shall baptize him once. ¹⁵And then he shall say:
Dost thou believe in Christ Jesus, the Son of God, who was born of the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, and was crucified under Pontius Pilate, and was dead and buried, and rose again the third day, alive from the dead, and ascended into heaven, and sat at the right 47hand of the Father, and will come to judge the quick and the dead? ¹⁶And when he says:
I believe,
he is baptized again. ¹⁷And again he shall say:
Dost thou believe in [the] Holy Ghost, and the holy church, and the resurrection of the flesh?
¹⁸He who is being baptized shall say accordingly:
I believe,
and so he is baptized a third time.[116]
¹⁹And afterward, when he has come up [out of the water], he is anointed by the presbyter with the oil of thanksgiving, the presbyter saying:
I anoint thee with holy oil in the name of Jesus Christ.
²⁰And so each one, after drying himself, is immediately clothed, and then is brought into the church.
22.[117] ¹Then the bishop, laying his hand upon them, shall pray, saying:
O Lord God, who hast made them worthy to obtain remission of sins through the laver of regeneration of [the] Holy Spirit, send into them thy grace, that they may serve thee according to thy will; for thine is the glory, to the Father and the Son, with [the] Holy Spirit in the holy church, both now and world without end. Amen.[118]
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