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Them his agent. he treated them like members of his administration. so now he would take the bishop of egypt and the bishop of jerusalem, the bishop of athens and state power would go through them. >> bishops become important people in the legal community if people have disputes with each other, they are as likely to go to a bishop to get it sorted out. >> you had to go to him to get the food supply. that made him enormously wealthy, and enormously influential. >> constantine gives romans a poli...

Acc . under constantine and the bishop of rome, christianity has gone from an outlawed sect to the ruling force of the western world. >> constantine was both the head of the state and he was the head of the church. he was still a roman, and in the old roman religion, the emperor was also the chief priest. constantine definitely took that approach to his faith rather than, you know, what we would now think of as a separation of powers. >> but despite christianitys new political advantage, after...

♪ for over 100 years following consta constantines death, rome is under attack by payingans from the north. the barbarians overthrow the last emperor of rome. the eternal city, once home to 2 million people, is reduced to less than 30,000. once the political and spiritual center of the empire, rome is now almost abandoned and stays that way for nearly 200 years. >> rome in the 6th century was muddier and messier and perhaps less efficiently governed than it had been in the time of constantin...

>> theres a tribal aspect to it, that our tribe is being attacked. just as we still do today, you know, 9/11. someone attacks the united states. people are lined up at induction centers to go off and fight. >> when he calls for the first crusade, pope urban ii solidifies his role as a world power. the pope is no longer just a spiritual guide. but a commander of the helm of an army. a zealous fleet of nearly 40,000 starts the long march east towards jerusalem. >> the crusades were first and forem...

>> constantine was a great military commander. and when it was his turn to become a junior emperor, he decided to fight his competition. >> constantine, the payingan commander declares woar on the commander of the east to decide who will become emperor of rome. and the day before the battle, he has a startling vision. >> he looks up and he sees the sign of the cross. >> and he thought it was a promise from jesus, that he would win the battle. >> constantine does win the battle. and the new emper...

Rulers became christian. there was no feeling that there should be a separation between church and state. church and state worked together. >> to honor his new-found faith, constantine made some spectacular building projects in christs name throughout the empire. among the most famous of them, the church of the holy accept will you kerr. >> the slab on the floor is the place where they say jesus was originally buried. >> but almost as soon as christians are free from roman persecution, they begi...

Acts as the first christian emperor of rome is to issue the edict of milan. this not only makes christianity legal, but favored. >> this is a big one. for the first time, a roman emperor decided to ally with the church. that meantime the whole of the known world was at the disposal of the church. >> as constantine moves christianity from outlaw to exalted, church and state become intertwined. >> constantine saw in christianity a way of uniting the empire. a new ideology that would give everybody...

He conquered it, but it was crumbling. >> he was angry, and he said, look, these things youre quarreling about are just trivial. i stopped the persecutions, you should be grateful. so he called a council to unify the church. >> the council of nicaea is the first time you bring all of the bishops together and have them start to talk to each other. >> the council marks the first meeting of senior church leaders. the foundation of the popes college of cardinals today. >> the bishops were commission...

Fully human and fully divine. >> you sign it, and youre part of us. and if you dont, youre ex communicated, youre out. youll probably go to hell. so this became the battling cry for catholics throughout the world. >> with the church unified after nicaea, constantine looks to further stabilize the foundation of his empire. he establishes a second hub of church power in the east. he names the new capital after himself. and calls it constantinoble. >> there is a bit of back and forth. >> the christ...