christianity became the official religion of rome under the edict of thessalonica.
christianity became the official religion of rome under the edict of thessalonica.
christianity became the official religion of rome under?
edict of thessalonica
even before christianity became the official religion of the roman empire, diocletian and maximian passed strict anti-polygamy laws in 285 ad that mandated monogamy as the only form of legal marital relationship, as had traditionally been the case in classical greece and rome. in 393, the byzantine emperor theodosius i issued an imperial edict to extend the ban on polygamy to jewish communities. in 1000, rabbi gershom ben judah ruled polygamy inadmissible within ashkenazi jewish communities living in a christian environment.
bigamy
in the early 4th century, constantine i became the first emperor to convert to christianity. during the rest of the fourth century christianity became the dominant religion of the empire. the emperor julian, under the influence of his adviser mardonius made a short-lived attempt to revive traditional and hellenistic religion and to affirm the special status of judaism, but in 380 (edict of thessalonica), under theodosius i christianity became the official state church of the roman empire, to the exclusion of all others. from the 2nd century onward, the church fathers had begun to condemn the diverse religions practised throughout the empire collectively as "pagan." pleas for religious tolerance from traditionalists such as the senator symmachus (d. 402) were rejected, and christian monotheism became a feature of imperial domination. christian heretics as well as non-christians were subject to exclusion from public life or persecution, but rome's original religious hierarchy and many aspects of its ritual influenced christian forms, and many pre-christian beliefs and practices survived in christian festivals and local traditions.
roman empire