CHRISTIAN EMPIRE

Christian empire has been selected by Roberto Amati in connection to the real history of european integration, enlisted in the IMPERIUM category, accompanied by own fact SHEET useful to the comprehension, completed of historical MAPS AND IMAGES or with a direct linking to the related Blog contents dedicated to the aeternitas and the future of Europe.

The Christian Empire was a not formal political entity of the history of European integration endured for sixteen centuries, started traditionally when the emperor Constantine I allowed Christianity as official religion of the Roman Empire and established a new public organization with the Bishoprics: the Christian Church Council, led by himself as Pontifex Maximus, held for the first time in Nicea in 325 A.D. with the final adoption act of the 'Roman Chruch Creed', still in force today as the Catholic Church Council!

Another historic and fundamental reform introduced with the Christian Empire was the confirmation of the Dioceses as admnistrative divisions entrusted to Bishops (watch the map above), who received many civil powers and responsibilies over their religious functions within the first christian communities they led, normally seated in the main Cities of the Imperium. Still today, the Catholic Church is organized in Dioceses assigned to the Bishops by the Pope, who is called Summae Pontifex of the informal christian roman empire.

Long after Constantine I decided to move the capital of the Christian Empire to Constantinople, replaying the imperial institutions and buildings seated in Rome, that concurrently became the capital of the Catholic Church while the ancient Senatus Gens of the Romana Res Publica was transformed in the Curia (from the name of the palace in Rome where the Senate used to reunite) and the persecutions returned under the emperor Theodosius I, after he sanctioned Cristianity as only admitted religion within the Imperium.

The Christian empire has been fundamental for history of european integration because it helped the inclusion and civilization of the new European peoples that occupied the roman Provinces lost when the Western part (Pars Occidens) declined in 476 A.D., establishing new regna romanorum ruled by the Germans kings and dinasties. A great job was done by the emperor Justinian I, who restored the ancient Limes on the Rhin river (except for Britain) and annexed Italy to the Christian empire subjected to his direct supreme power, then composed the Codex of all roman laws since the foundation of the Roman Republic to give a juridic foundations to the institutions of the whole history of European integration, still applied today by all the European states and usefull for the future of Europe such as the aeternitas enlisted in the Codex: the Christian Empire reinforced the sense of United Europe under the same law and religiion and was called for centuries "ecclesiae christiana".

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