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To: crosshairs

“Actually Constantine the Great founded what is today the Catholic Church around 325 A.D., or so. Constantine was very pagan oriented too.”

Didn’t he establish the Catholic church as the religion of the Empire?


52 posted on 10/09/2012 10:35:28 AM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Texas, Texas, Whisky)
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To: JCBreckenridge

Constantine officially tolerated Christianity through the Edict of Milan in AD 313. In fact, he was not baptized until shortly before his death in AD 337.

Interestingly, one of his successors, Julian, re-asserted paganism as the state religion a few decades later. The Catholic Church did not actually become the state religion of Rome until 380, under Theodosius I.


54 posted on 10/09/2012 11:03:10 AM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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