Finishing the Rise in Christianity Section

• Constantine fought three rivals in leadership of Rome
• He marched to the Tiber river to meet his chief rival
• Constantine prayed and won, credited the success to the christian God
• in 313 A.D, Constantine announced the end of Christian persecution
• in 380, Theodosius made it the Empire's official Religion.
• Priests led a small group of Christians
• Bishops supervised several local churches, Peter was the first bishop
• Pope- the father of the christian church. whoever was bishop of Rome is the leader of the whole church.
• disagreements about the christian ideas of belief arose
• The beliefs were compiled into the New Testament, especially the Gospels
• in 325, Constantine called all church leaders to Nicaea in Anatolia,where they wrote the Nicene Creed.
• Several early christian writers and Scholars
• Augustine taught that people needed the grace of God to be saved
• Wrote The City of God after Rome was plundered in the fifth century.