Roman emperor from 306 to 337 and first to convert to Christianity (272–337)
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He turned the Roman Empire Christian. Constantine legalized a persecuted faith, summoned the council that wrote the Nicene Creed, and built Constantinople as a new capital that outlasted Rome itself by a thousand years.
Born in 272 in Naissus to a low-born Greek mother and an army officer who would become emperor, Constantine rose through the ranks under Diocletian and Galerius, fighting Persians in the east and campaigning in Britannia with his father. When his father died in 306, the army proclaimed him augustus at York. He spent the next eighteen years in civil war, defeating rival emperors Maxentius and Licinius to claim sole rule by 324. As emperor he restructured the government, introduced the solidus gold coin that anchored currency for a millennium, disbanded the Praetorian Guard, and reorganized the…
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Some time ago a most salutary sanction of our constitution was promulgated, which we now make doubly noteworthy by the repetition of our law.
How pleasing to the wise and intelligent portion of mankind is the concord which exists among you!
By keeping the Divine faith, I am made a partaker of the light of truth: guided by the light of truth, I advance in the knowledge of the Divine faith.
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