Thus , Stephen based his argument on to tradition from St. Peter and St. Paul .
This was the practice even of the African Church till Agrippinus , bishop of Carthage , in the close of the second century , changed it , fifty years before St. Cyprian .
Stephen based his argument on to tradition from St. Peter and St. Paul .
This was the practice even of the African Church till Agrippinus , bishop of Carthage , in the close of the second century , changed it , fifty years before St. Cyprian .