Loading…

Christian Cyclopedia is unavailable, but you can change that!

Did you know: In 1970 the Mormon church had over two million members? A woman (Barbara Heck) began the Methodist church in the United States? How about questions such as: How did the Sunday school begin? Is the Masonic ritual anti-Christian? What about other lodges? What does “Millennium” mean? What is “holy water”? The Christian Cyclopedia will give your family information on these...

Constantine, who became sole Roman emp. 325. Constantine convened the Council of Nicaea* (see also Arianism; Councils and Synods, 4). Beginning in 326 he moved the seat of govt. from Rome to Byzantium, which he rebuilt and 330 renamed Constantinople. One tradition says he was bap. by Sylvester I (see Popes, 1) at the Lateran*; another account has him bap. at or near Nicomedia by Eusebius* of Nicomedia; M. Chemnitz,* Examen, Part IV, Locus II, Section IV, Chap. I, near the end, speaks of the