Pope Francis affirmed his intention to attend next year’s celebration marking 1,700 years since the first Council of Nicaea, ...

T. D.BARNES, CONSTANTINE: DYNASTY, RELIGION AND POWER IN THE LATER ROMAN EMPIRE. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Pp. xiii + 266, 8 pls, illus. isbn1-4051-1727-3/ ...

In 313 AD, the Emperor Constantine issued the Edict of Milan, which accepted Christianity: 10 years later, it had become the official religion of the Roman Empire.