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The apostolic water baptism was done only (solely) in the Name of the Saviour, Jesus the Christ. Math. 28.19's version did not come from the mouth of Jesus nor from the pen of Matthew. See note on the Audio, "Two Baptismal Commands, the Road to Confusion", namely that the Catholic Church changed Peter's baptismal command to "Father, Son and Holy Spirit" in the second century A.D. It seems this was an influence from North Africa (the Latin Church) although its inception is rather from the Western Church (Rome).

I also would like to add here that some Pentecostal teachers proclaim that although the Trinity (the doctrine) does not appear in the Bible and especially in the New Testament, that the trinitarian wording, Father, Son and Spirit do appear "all over the Bible", however. not as we are finding it in Math. 28.19! All Christians, therefore not only Trinitarians, confess faith in the Father and His Son, also Holy Spirit, yet not believing in a Trinity. The only text that does align with Math. 28.19 is the contentious 1 Jn 5.7. So both Math. 28.19 and 1 Jn 5.7 are questionable and therefore debatable. 1 Jn 5.7 seems to have strong connections with the early Latin tradition.