Study On Diocletian’s Christian Policy

Diocletian’s Christian policy was a combination of tolerance and suppression of Christianity in order to maintain and consolidate the empire during his reign based on the political reality and interests of the empire.In the early period of Diocletian’s reign,his policy towards various religions in Rome was always pluralistic and tolerant.At this time,Christianity also achieved relatively rapid development.In the later period of its reign,faced with the growing threat of Christianity and the response to the anti-Christian voices of the pagan masses,and the fact that Christianity was difficult to be integrate into the imperial government due to its exclusivity and expansion,the Roman imperial government had to change course and make policy adjustments to suppress Christianity from the interests of the empire.But the suppression was always aimed at adapting it to imperial rule.The formulation and implementation of Diocletian’s Christian policy was at an important turning point in the history of the Roman-Byzantine Empire and the history of imperial Christian policy,which not only reflected the inheritance of the Christian policy of the pre-Diocletian era,but also formulated Christianity for later rulers.The policy provides a reference and a new perspective to better understand the history of Christian policy in the Roman Empire in the following centuries,which has a very important impact on the entire history of the Roman-Byzantine Empire.