Constantine I (27 February c. 272 – 22 May 337), also known as Constantine the Great, was a Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337 and the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity.
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May 18, 2024 · Constantine I, first Roman emperor to profess Christianity. Militarily, he triumphed over foreign and domestic threats.
Constantine was the first Roman emperor to declare his support for Christianity, pouring imperial patronage and resources into the church and transforming ...
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Posted: Dec 23, 2019
Posted: Dec 23, 2019
As the founder of the Christian empire, Constantine began a new era. He was an absolute ruler, and his reign saw the culmination of the tendency toward despotic ...
Constantine was to reign as sole emperor from 324 until his death in May 337. We possess abundant, if often one-sided, contemporary accounts, and these have ...
Caesar Augustus was the first Roman emperor. Byzantine emperors ruled at Constantinople until 1453. Charlemagne became the first of the Western emperors (later ...
The First Christian Emperor. The major turning point for Christianity in the Roman Empire came in the form of a vision to the future unifier, Constantine, ...
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 ...
He was the first ruler of the Roman Empire to be a Christian. He made the old city Byzantium into a new, larger city: Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey). The ...