Miltiades (Bishop of Rome)

Icon depicting Miltiades

Miltiades or Melchiades ( Heb .- lat .: The Royal , also Meltiades , Melciades , Milciades , Milziade or Miltides ; † 10 or 11 January 314 ) was on 2 July 310 to 10 or 11 January 314 Bishop of Rome ( Pope ).

Life

Despite the Greek name, Miltiades was likely a North African, but his biography is uncertain.

During his tenure, the Edict of Tolerance of Galerius was issued on April 30, 311 , which ended the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire , with regional exceptions under Maximinus Daia . After Constantine had triumphed over his opponent Maxentius on October 28, 312 , the Milan agreement was subsequently reached between him and Licinius , which meant the equality of all religions in the Roman Empire . The Lateran Palace came at this time de facto in the possession of the bishops of Rome, "de jure" but only in the year 800 by the debunked as a forgery Donation of Constantine .

Miltiades became significant in church history through the endeavor to resolve the dispute with Donatism . He headed the court of arbitration in the Lateran to settle the dispute between the bishops Caecilianus of Carthage and Donatus of Casae Nigrae , which rehabilitated Caecilianus on October 2, 313 and called on the Donatists to reconcile with Caecilianus.

Adoration

His relics are in the Catacomb of Calixtus in the so-called region of Pope Miltiades .

His feast day in the Catholic Church is January 10th and April 10th in the Orthodox Church.

literature

Adolf Lumpe: Miltiades. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 5, Bautz, Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-043-3 , Sp. 1537-1538. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Entry in the Catholic Encyclopedia , Robert Appleton Company, New York 1913.

Web links

Commons : Miltiades - collection of images, videos and audio files

Complete works of Migne Patrologia Latina with table of contents

Individual evidence

^ Serge Lancel: Saint Augustine . SCM Press, 2002. ISBN 0-334-02866-3 . P. 166.
↑ Resting place ( Memento from September 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

predecessor	Office	successor
Eusebius	Bishop of Rome (the term Pope was first used after 384) 310–314	New Year I.

personal data
SURNAME	Miltiades
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Melchiades; Meltiades; Melciades; Milciades; Spleen; Miltides
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Pope (from July 10, 310 to January 10 or 11, 314)
DATE OF BIRTH	3rd century
DATE OF DEATH	January 10, 314 or January 11, 314

[1] Serge Lancel: Saint Augustine . SCM Press, 2002. ISBN 0-334-02866-3 . P. 166.

[2] Resting place ( Memento from September 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive )