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Bishops who reported to the bishop of rome had been working well. but now with constantnoble acting as a second, there was another who believed he should be in charge. >> there were disputes between the bishops of rome, and the bishop of constantnoble. each one saw himself as a powerful leader, and each one was competing with the others for authority. >> despite constantine's best efforts to unify his empire under one church, the east and west remain at odds. seven years after the counsel of nisea, constantine dies, leaving the church still divided and rome without a strong military leader. fo...

Commander of the east to decide who will be sole 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. >> konstantin -- constantine does win the battle. and the new emperor is forever changed by his vision. >> he decides he's going to be a christian. >> one of his first official acts as the first christian emperor of rome is to issue the edict of milan. this not only makes

>> bishops become important people in the local community. if people have disputes with each other, they were likely to go to a bishop to get it worked out. >> you had to go to him to get the food supply. that made him enormously wealthy and influential. >> he gives christians tax breaks and makes churches tax exempt. >> constantine is the reason why churches are now in the u.s. tax free entities. constantine is the reason why churches have this special status. >> from the time of constantine, the church became the ally of rulers, as rulers became christian. there was no feeling that there sho...

Hell. so this became the battle cry for christians throughout the world. >> with the church unified after nysea, constantine looks to further stabilize the religious 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 constantanoble. >> there's a bit of back and forth between roam and sk the christians in the et tend to look at the christians in the east as just barbarians. they would say the catholics in the west baptized their children in wolf saliva. the west erners look at the east as being not strong. >> th...

Kill you for that. christians willing to kill other christians for those differences. >> to unite the empire, constantine must organize his bishops under one roof or risk having the christian empire he's built come crashing down. your sleep number setting. does your bed do that? it's the last chance for clearance savings up to $800 on our most popular beds. ends saturday. visit sleepnumber.com for a store near you. ♪ ♪