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In 325A>D........................the Julian calander was used..........therefore Constantine used the old Church Calender..........AS is Today used in the Orthodox true Church...........
Early Christianity used the julian calender.....
Gregorian Calendar (named after Pope Gregory XIII, who introduced it into the Latin Church in 1582),
Constantine's vision of the Cross led also, in his lifetime, to two further consequences, equally momentous for the later development of Christendom.
First, in 324 he decided to move the capital of the Roman Empire eastward from Italy to the shores of the Bosphorus. Here, on the site of the Greek city of Byzantium, he built a new capital, which he named after himself, 'Constantinoupolis'. The motives for this move were in part economic and political, but they were also religious: the Old Rome was too deeply stained with pagan associations to form the centre of the Christian Empire which he had in mind.
In the New Rome things were to be different: after the solemn inauguration of the city in 330, he laid down that at Constantinople no pagan rites should ever be performed. Constantine's new capital has exercised a decisive influence upon the development of Orthodox history.
Secondly, Constantine summoned the first General or Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church at Nicaea in 323. If the Roman Empire was to be a Christian Empire, then Constantine wished to see it firmly based upon the one Orthodox faith.
It was the duty of the Nicene Council to elaborate the content of that faith. Nothing could have symbolized more clearly the new relation between Church and State than the outward circumstances of the gathering at Nicaea.
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From Thread: FATHER,SON, AND HOLY SPIRIT.......what it means???
Posted by helen670, on April 19, 2003 at 10:30 GMTIn 325A>D........................the Julian calander was used..........therefore Constantine used the old Church Calender..........AS is Today used in the Orthodox true Church...........
Early Christianity used the julian calender.....
Gregorian Calendar (named after Pope Gregory XIII, who introduced it into the Latin Church in 1582),
Constantine's vision of the Cross led also, in his lifetime, to two further consequences, equally momentous for the later development of Christendom.
First, in 324 he decided to move the capital of the Roman Empire eastward from Italy to the shores of the Bosphorus. Here, on the site of the Greek city of Byzantium, he built a new capital, which he named after himself, 'Constantinoupolis'. The motives for this move were in part economic and political, but they were also religious: the Old Rome was too deeply stained with pagan associations to form the centre of the Christian Empire which he had in mind.
In the New Rome things were to be different: after the solemn inauguration of the city in 330, he laid down that at Constantinople no pagan rites should ever be performed. Constantine's new capital has exercised a decisive influence upon the development of Orthodox history.
Secondly, Constantine summoned the first General or Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church at Nicaea in 323. If the Roman Empire was to be a Christian Empire, then Constantine wished to see it firmly based upon the one Orthodox faith.
It was the duty of the Nicene Council to elaborate the content of that faith. Nothing could have symbolized more clearly the new relation between Church and State than the outward circumstances of the gathering at Nicaea.
more from this web .......
link below.....
orthodoxinfo.com...
orthodoxinfo.com...
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