High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The state church of the Roman Empire was established on 27 February 380 with the Edict of Thessalonica, when Emperor Theodosius I made Nicene Christianity the empire's sole authorized religion. Unlike Constantine I, who with the Edict of Milan of 313 had established tolerance for Christianity without placing it above other religions and whose involvement in matters of the Christian faith extended to convoking councils of bishops who were to determine doctrine and to presiding at their meetings, but not to determining doctrine himself, Theodosius established a single Christian doctrine, which he specified as that professed by Pope Damasus I and Pope Peter II of Alexandria, as the state's official religion. The First Council of Constantinople in 381, which he summoned, decreed that the Bishop of Constantinople was to have "the prerogative of honour after the Bishop of Rome because Constantinople is new Rome". Данное издание представляет собой...

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