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I said nothing about official declarations but that Constantine made his state religion.

It was he who called and financed the council and Sylvester’s role was a minor one if it existed at all.

Constantine was never a Christian unless you can define a “Christian” as a murder that makes a so-called death bed conversion. And even that is doubtful.

I said nothing about official declarations but that Constantine made his state religion. Christianity

And yet Constantine did not do that. Throughout Constantine's reign, right up until 80 years after his death, the state religion was officially ancient roman paganism. Check it out. All Constantine did was remove the ban and stop the persecution of Christians.

Theodosius was the one in 391 AD who made Christianity the state religion -- Constatine died in 312 AD (he was baptised on his death bed)

Constantine was never a Christian unless you can define a “Christian” as a murder(er) that makes a so-called death bed conversion

What is your definition of a Christian? Is it someone who became "saved" i.e. have trusted Jesus as Lord, God and Savior?

By that definition, we can be pretty sure that Constantine did this on his death-bed and we can safely assume that this was earlier when he saw the sign of the Cross on the sky and heard the words from heaven saying "by this sign you shall conquer".

I believe that he actually saw that and believed that Christ was God.

He may have been iffy on some points (there's strong evidence that as a later latin, he didn't really believe in any god initially) and he was not a "good man", but then, most rulers find that a difficult position.

Anyway, to your point -- during his life after seeing the Cross, I think Constantine believed in Christ as His Lord and Savior -- but there is no proof either way. He was a sinner and a murderer, but even sinners and murderers can repent and become reconciled with Christ.

On Constantine's death-bed he was baptised -- and remember the beleif in baptism at that point was that it completely washed away your sins, so Constantine showed that he truly believed in Christ as Lord, God and Savior.