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4 days ago · Constantine I [g] (27 February c. 272 – 22 May 337), also known as Constantine the Great, was a Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337 and the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity.
20 hours ago · Persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire began during the reign of Constantine the Great (r. 306–337) in the military colony of Aelia Capitolina (Jerusalem), when he destroyed a pagan temple for the purpose of constructing a Christian church. [1] Rome had periodically confiscated church properties, and Constantine was vigorous in ...
5 days ago · Constantine the Great, declared emperor at York, Britain (306), converted to Christianity, convened the Council of Arles (314), became sole emperor (324), virtually presided over the ecumenical Council of Nicaea (325), founded the city of Constantinople (330), and died in 337.
20 hours ago · The first pagan revivalist – and still the best known – was the Emperor Julian, a strange young philosopher-general who ruled the Roman Empire from AD 361 to 363. By this time, Christianity had become established as the religion of the imperial house and of much of the Empire’s population – a process that famously started with the conversion of the Emperor Constantine in 312.
3 days ago · The First Council of Nicaea (/ naɪˈsiːə / ny-SEE-ə; Ancient Greek: Σύνοδος τῆς Νίκαιας, romanized:Sýnodos tês Níkaias) was a council of Christian bishops convened in the Bithynian city of Nicaea (now İznik, Turkey) by the Roman Emperor Constantine I. The Council of Nicaea met from May until the end of July 325.
5 days ago · This is a series of edicts issued by Constantine regarding religion, beginning with the original edict of toleration from 311 signed by three of the then four rulers of the Roman Empire: Lactantius, Licinius, and Constantine.
20 hours ago · 313-392 AD: Emperor Constantine I (272-337) converts to Christianity in 313. Theodosius I (347-395) continues his work with the Edict of Thessalonica in 380, which declares Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire. He bans all pagan practices in 392. 406 AD: The “barbarian invasions” sweep across Gaul.
