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Soon after a struggle for power began between Licinius and Constantine, from

which Constantine emerged in 324 as a victorious Christian champion. Constantine was

now emperor of both East and West, and he began to implement important administrative

reforms. He reorganized the army, and made a separation of civil and military authority,

begun by his predecessor, Diocletian. Constantine and his council ran the central

government and the Senate was given back the powers that it had lost in the 3d century

Constantine intervened in ecclesiastical affairs to achieve unity and he presided

over the first ecumenical council of the church at Nicaea in 325. Also he began the

building of Constantinople in 326 on the site of ancient Greek Byzantium. The city was

completed in 330, given Roman institutions, and beautified by ancient Greek works of

art. In addition, Constantine built churches in the Holy Land, where his mother found the

True Cross on which Jesus was





crucified. (Jay Bregman, Ph.D.) The emperor was baptized shortly before his death,

on May 22, 337......

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