My church practices sprinkling.
Baptism consists of the processes of immersion, submersion, and emergence.
Since baptism is immersion in water, it was necessary for them both to go down into the water. If the eunuch had been sprinkled instead of baptized, neither of them would have needed to be inconvenienced by going down into the water. In A.D. 1331, at the Council of Ravenna, sprinkling was officially recognized as a substitute for immersion by the Catholic Church. Today, many religious denominations practice sprinkling as a substitute for baptism. To best view this site, use the latest version of Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator .