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en-wikipedia-org-7822		Constantine the Great - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	21356	2472	68	Constantine was the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity.[notes 2] Although he lived much of his life as a pagan, and later as a catechumen, he began to favor Christianity beginning in 312, finally becoming a Christian and being baptised by either Eusebius of Nicomedia, an Arian bishop, or Pope Sylvester I, which is maintained by the Catholic Church and the Coptic Orthodox Church. The age of Constantine marked a distinct epoch in the history of the Roman Empire.[11] He built a new imperial residence at Byzantium and renamed the city Constantinople (now Istanbul) after himself (the laudatory epithet of "New Rome" emerged in his time, and was never an official title). Baronius' Life of Constantine (1588) presents Constantine as the model of a Christian prince.[303] Edward Gibbon aimed to unite the two extremes of Constantinian scholarship in his work The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776–89) by contrasting the portraits presented by Eusebius and Zosimus.[304] He presents a noble war hero who transforms into an Oriental despot in his old age, "degenerating into a cruel and dissolute monarch".[305]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7822.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7822.txt