edict of milan. this not only makes christian i christianity, legal but favored. >> this is the first time a roman emperor decided to ally with the church. so that means the whole known word was at the disposal of the church. >> as constantine moves -- church and state become intertwines. >> constantine saw in the empire, a new ideology that would give everybody the same god, the same moral attitudes. >> constantine opened up the -- >> what constantine did is take the bishops who had been previously persecuted and make them his agents. he treated them like members of his administration. now he would take the bishop of egypt, the bishop of jerusalem, the bishop of athens and state