@placebo @BowsacNoodle @vonzeppelin @Jewpacabra Baptism-by-Laity is reserved for literal life-or-death type situations, in Orthodoxy. Holy Baptism mystically unites a man to the Death and Resurrection of Our Lord - and also to a particular Bishop, by extension. So it makes sense *not* to just allow these things all willy-nilly.
> “For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.”
~ Corinthians 14:33 KJV