# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pope-miltiades
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name: "Pope Miltiades"
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description: "He was bishop of Rome when Constantine flipped the board: the Edict of Milan in 313 made Christianity legal across the empire, and the emperor handed him a palace that became the Vatican's seat of power for centuries."
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deathDate: "0314-01-11"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Miltiades, also called Melchiades the African, led the Church from 311 until his death on 10 or 11 January 314. During those three years, Emperor Constantine the Great issued the Edict of Milan in 313, granting Christianity legal standing within the Roman Empire for the first time. Constantine also gave him the palace of Empress Fausta, the ground on which the Lateran Palace — the papal residence and centre of Church administration — would rise. Miltiades convened the Lateran Council to address a schism with the Church of Carthage, condemning the rebaptism of apostatised bishops and priests, a position championed by Donatus Magnus. He died in office, having steered the Church through its passage from persecution to imperial favour.