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Welcome back to the History of the Papacy podcast.

I'm Steve, your host for this podcast about the history of the popes of Rome and Christian Church. If you have questions, comments, or

would like to submit an idea for the map contest, go over to the new website, A2Z Historypage.com.

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check it out. We are going to dive into one of the many issues, or should we say, controversies

the early church found itself in and was, for the lack of a better word, dealt with during the

First Council of Nicaea in 325 AD. I would say the purpose of the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD.

I would say the purpose of the Council of Nicaea

was to make a number of square pegs fit into round holes,

by which I mean a lot of local Christian traditions

needed to be bashed into one formal and uniform Christian religion.

What Constantine always talked about was quote unquote religion. What that religion was exactly became the question at hand. Bishops, many of

whom were martyrs or maybe more properly confessors who were steeped in the faith and were even

physically damaged from persecution

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