Tradition Institution

state church of the Roman Empire

Form of Christianity in the Roman Empire

Dated from 27 February 380 CE
Also called Christianity as the Roman state religion, imperial Roman church, Nicene church

Branches and affiliations

A path that branches,
meets and parts.

Schools and lineages

Branches and affiliations

Many paths. Shared histories.

What this means

Association and branching, in both directions. Traditions overlap, split and re-merge; this is not a single-origin family tree, and being listed under another tradition is not the same as being recognised by it.

Does not imply a clean single-origin family tree · that the parent recognises the branch

Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Recorded as a branch of

Christianity in the Roman Empire

state church of the Roman Empire Form of Christianity in the Roman Empire

Overview

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At a glance

Kind: Tradition · Institution
Date: from 27 February 380 CERead from its recorded start time.On the timeline →
Also called: Christianity as the Roman state religion, imperial Roman church, Nicene church
Evidence: 1 statement on this recordImported 1
Wikidata: Q7603670 ↗In 16 Wikipedia languages

What this page is not

Not a list of beliefs everyone in it held, and not a map of adherents.

What this means

A tradition is not a list of beliefs held by everyone in it, and an affiliation recorded on a person is not that person’s belief in every period of their life.

Nothing here is a map of adherents. Where people practised a tradition, and how many, needs a dataset with its own methodology, and this site does not have one — see the atlas for what it does show.

Its recorded date, from 27 February 380 CE, is an inception — a claim about a beginning, usually contested, and never an attestation window.

Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

How this site reads its sources

1 statement on this record

1 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

Three layers, three licences

Data: Wikidata · CC0 1.0
Text: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
Pictures: Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms

Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

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Paths that branch,
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