The Christian Emperors of 'Old Rome' and 'New Rome'- „Defensores et Protectores Ecclesiae' (Defenders and Protectors of the Church)

摘要

Among other things, the pages of our study have the purpose of informing and documenting the reader - even if succinctly - about the policy undertaken by some Christian emperors in their relations with the Church, and, ipso facto, the forms of manifestation of the relations between the State and the Church, which in fact began after the Milan Decree of 313. The historical testimonies (secular and ecclesiastical), the provisions of some Laws (roman-bizantines and byzantines) of State and Church and the Acts of the Ecumenical Synods confirm us the fact that over the centuries, some Christian emperors of the (Western and Eastern) Roman Empire turned out not to be persecutors of the Church of Christ - like their predecessors - but its "defensores et protectores" (defenders and protectors), even though their number differed from one epoch to another, and their support and protection have known different forms of manifestation.