Council of Carthage against Pelagianism

On 1 May 418 over 200 bishops approved canons against the views of Pelagius and Caelestius: Adam would not have died had he not sinned; infants are baptized for the remission of original sin; grace does not only forgive past sins but helps us not to sin; and no one in this life is without sin. The canons were later included in the Code of the African Church (419).

Convoked by

Aurelius, bishop of Carthage

Canons

8

None (regional African council), though its canons were backed by Pope Zosimus in his Epistola tractoria and widely received in the West.