Before the Church Divided

To further understand modern church history let’s go back before the Great Schism to look at some early fathers of the church.

Scriptures

Revelation 18:

Matthew 24:

Timeline of the early Church

• A.D. 258 – Martyrdom of Laurence & other martyrs
• AD 306-324 – Civil war between the two halves of the Empire. Constantine won control of both halves and moved the capital from Rome to Byzantium, later renamed: Constantinople.
• AD 325 – Constantine played an influential role in the proclamation of the Edict of Milan, which decreed religious tolerance throughout the empire. He called the First Council of Nicaea in 325, at which the Nicene Creed was professed by Christians.
• AD 383 – Augustine arrives in Milan. After his conversion takes the position as bishop of Hippo near his native Carthage, N. Africa, in 396, a position which he held until his death in AD 430.

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