Pope Saint Miltiades was born with the given name of Miltiades in the year A.D., and died in 314 A.D. He began his reign as Pope in the year 311 A.D. and ended his reign in the year 314 A.D., during the Early Church. Saint Miltiades was from Africa, and his papal number is: 32 out of 267 officially recognized Roman Catholic Popes.
Summary: Pope at the time of Constantine’s toleration of Christianity.
Biography:Saint Miltiades presided over one of the great turning points in Christian history. During his pontificate, Emperor Constantine and Licinius issued the Edict of Milan in 313, granting legal toleration to Christianity and ending generations of official persecution. For the first time, the Church could live openly within the empire.
Miltiades guided the Roman Church through this extraordinary transition from repression to recognition. He also oversaw early responses to the Donatist controversy, a dispute that raised profound questions about the holiness of the Church, the validity of sacraments, and the wounds left by persecution.
His legacy rests in shepherding the Church at the threshold of a new era. Under his leadership, Christianity began to move from the catacombs into the public square, while still bearing the marks of its martyr past.
