The Role of Roman Church and his Bishop for the Universal Church from the Constantine Breakthrough to the Chalcedon Council (451)

Abstract

Johannes HofmannThe history of shaping institutional structures of the Church goes back to the beginnings of Christianity. However, the process of their emerging is associated with the so-called The Constantine Breakthrough in the year 312. This date marks the beginnings of ‘visible’ and identifiable Church structures which were built by bishops and based on the principle of mutual communion.Uniwersytet w Eichstätt-Ingolstadt817519