HISTORY
ORIGINS OF CHRISTIANITY
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the division of the Roman empire into east and west
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the establishment of Milan as the empire’s capital
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freedom of worship to all citizens of the Roman empire
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the establishment of Christianity as the empire’s official religion
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Detailed explanation-1: -Edict of Milan, proclamation that permanently established religious toleration for Christianity within the Roman Empire. It was the outcome of a political agreement concluded in Mediolanum (modern Milan) between the Roman emperors Constantine I and Licinius in February 313.
Detailed explanation-2: -What did Constantine agree to as part of the alliance he made with Licinius? all persecution of Christians would stop, and all confiscated properties would be returned to the church. From about AD 313 on Christianity became not only legal, but accepted.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 313, Constantine and his co-emperor of the Balkans, Licinius, issued the Edict of Milan, an important change of policy for the Roman Empire. The edict ceased the persecution of Christianity, granted legal recognition to the faith, and restored seized property to its practitioners.
Detailed explanation-4: -As the first Roman emperor to claim conversion to Christianity, Constantine played an influential role in the proclamation of the Edict of Milan in 313, which decreed tolerance for Christianity in the empire. He called the First Council of Nicaea in 325, at which the Nicene Creed was professed by Christians.