What did Constantine do that helped spread Christianity?

Answer 1

Mostly with bloodshed.

AnswerConstantine:

• Co-signed an edict that provided freedom of religion for mainstream Christians
• Gave Christianity state patronage
• Provided generous state stipends for the Christian clergy
• Expended considerable state funds on the construction of magnificent churches
• Encouraged those with ambition to see that conversion to Christianity would best serve their interests
• Refused to perform the ancient rites in the Roman emperor's traditional function as high priest, a public snub to paganism
• Persecuted the pagan religion
• Removed a number of important pagan temples, although he permitted the construction of others
• As the army refused to participate, humiliated the pagan priests by sending Christians to plunder the treasures of the pagan temples for the imperial treasury.

AnswerConstantine was a Roman emperor, who practiced Roman Paganism for most of his life. In 313 he converted to Christianity and stopped the persecution of early Christians and allowed them to build churches and convert Pagan's to worship Christ, which enabled Christianity to completely destroyed Paganism and spread across the world. AnswerHe supported the Christian Church. AnswerConstantine was the first openly Christian Roman emperor. AnswerConstantine gave Christianity state patronage, including considerable financial assistance. He allowed the Church to distribute state food aid to the poor, allowing the Christians to proselytise to their captive audiences, who also saw that many of the elite were adopting Christianity out of ambition. The pagan temples were plundered for their treasures and some occasional persecution of pagans instituted. Bribes were offered to city administrators who demolished all the pagan temples in their jurisdictions, and to Roman citizens who converted. By the time of Constantine's death, Christianity had grown enormously, although still constituting a minority of the population.

Answer 2

A:When Theodosius became emperor of Rome in 378 CE, Christians probably still formed less than half the population of the empire. Making Christianity the official religion of the empire certainly would have helped encourage pagans to convert, as did the continuation of the persecutions that began under Constantine and his Christian successors. The one real way in which Theodosius spread Christianity quickly was to make it an offence punishable by death to worship the old gods publicly. It even became a capital offence just to look at the pagan statues smashed by the Christian mobs.

Answer 3

He supported the Christian Church.