State and religion · 313 CE

The Edict of Milan

Milan and Nicomedia (İzmit)

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After meeting at Milan early in 313, Constantine and Licinius agreed that Christians and everyone else might worship as they chose, and that property seized from the churches be returned. The text survives as a letter Licinius had posted in the East in June 313; it confirmed an end to persecution that Galerius had already conceded in 311.

People: Constantine, Licinius

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