HISTORY
ORIGINS OF CHRISTIANITY
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but later it was tolerated, but not accepted.
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and continued to remain illegal until the Empire’s fall.
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but later it became the official state religion.
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and eventually died out within the Empire.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire when Emperor Theodosius I issued the Edict of Thessalonica in 380, which recognized the catholic orthodoxy of Nicene Christians in the Great Church as the Roman Empire’s state religion.
Detailed explanation-2: -This is because after this persecution, in 312, Emperor Constantine I became the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity. A year later, he helped enact the Edict of Milan, which ended government persecution of Christians and made Christianity a recognized, legal religion within the empire.
Detailed explanation-3: -On February 27, 380, in Thessaloniki, the Eastern Roman Emperor Theodosius I (347-395) signed a decree in the presence of the Western Roman Emperor Valentinian II (371-392) that made Christianity the religion of the state and punished the practice of pagan rituals.
Detailed explanation-4: -Constantine stood out because he became a Christian and unabashedly made Jesus the patron of his army. By 313, just two contenders remained, Constantine and Licinius. The two jointly issued the Edict of Milan, which made Christianity a legal religion and officially ended the persecution.
Detailed explanation-5: -Who was Constantine? Constantine made Christianity the main religion of Rome, and created Constantinople, which became the most powerful city in the world. Emperor Constantine (ca A.D. 280– 337) reigned over a major transition in the Roman Empire-and much more.