CHRISTIAN EMPIRE

Christian empire has been selected by Roberto Amati in relation to the real history of european integration, then 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 entire history of european integration 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 of the Bishops: the Christian Church Council led by himself as Pontifex Maximus, held for the first time in Nicea in 325 AD 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 Roman Dioceses as admnistrative division entrusted to Bishops (watch the map above), who received many civil powers and responsibilies over their religious functions within the 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.

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 transormed in the Curia (from the name of the palace in Rome where the Senate used to reunite).

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 Provinces lost to the Imperium when the Western part declined in 476 AD, establishing new reigns ruled by the Germans kings and dinasties. A great job was done by the emperor Justinian I, who restored the ancient Limes on the river Rhin (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".

Christian empire

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