This raucous meeting, which took place exactly 1700 years ago, was one of the most important in Christian history.

And the Council of Nicea resolved that the proper teaching was that Jesus was of the same being as the father. Who called the Council of Nicea? The Emperor Constantine was the moving force in the ...

The most egregious center around the Roman emperor Constantine. Brown claims that Constantine invented Jesus’ divinity and imposed it through a relatively close vote at the Council of Nicea ...

and Constantine (right). Photograph by JAMES L. STANFIELD, Nat Geo Image Collection Christianity emerged in the far reaches of the Roman Empire sometime around A.D. 26 or 27, when Jesus of ...

Just under three centuries passed between Jesus’ crucifixion and A.D. 325, when Constantine the Great convened the Council of Nicaea. After Constantine, Jesus-worship, which began as one of ...

The tradition of Christians celebrating Christmas in December came several centuries after Jesus's death, right after Roman Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity in 312 A.D. The first ...

The popularity of Keanu Reeves’ 2005 comic book-inspired film “Constantine” had its filmmakers brainstorming ideas for a sequel — and one of those ideas involved the occult detective ...

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre's Edicule, a shrine that encloses Jesus’ purported resting place Michael Privorotsky CC 2.0 In the year 325 A.D., according to historical sources, Constantine ...