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Thereafter, he supported the Church financially, built various basilicas, granted privileges (e.g., exemption from certain taxes) to clergy, promoted Christians to high ranking offices, and returned property confiscated during the reign of Diocletian.
[1] Constantine utilized Christian symbols early in his reign but still encouraged traditional Roman religious practices including sun worship.
[4]: 333 This "momentous transformation" threatened the survival of the marginal religious movement as it naturally led to divisions, schisms and defections.
[4]: 317, 320 Bryant explains that, "once those within a sect determine that "the 'spirit' no longer resides in the parent body, 'the holy and the pure' typically find themselves compelled – either by conviction or coercion – to withdraw and establish their own counter-church, comprised of the 'gathered remnant' of God's elect".
[4]: 332 During the Melitian schism and the beginnings of the Donatist division, bishop Cyprian had felt compelled to "grant one laxist concession after another in the course of his desperate struggle to preserve the Catholic church".
Brown says Roman authorities had shown no hesitation in "taking out" the Christian church they had seen as a threat to empire, and Constantine and his successors did the same, for the same reasons.
John Kaye characterizes the conversion of Constantine, and the council of Nicea, as two of the most important things to ever happen to the Christian church.
69.172.156.244 (talk) 16:57, 23 September 2022 (UTC)[reply] The "Spread of Christianity to AD 600 - Atlas of World History.png" file used as the first image in this article seems dubious to me.