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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 92 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MELCHIADES, or See also:MILTIADES (other forms of the name being Meltiades, Melciades, Milciades and Miltides)  , See also:pope from the 2nd of See also:July 3ro, to the Irth See also:January 314 . He appears to have been an See also:African by See also:birth, but of his See also:personal See also:history nothing is known . The See also:toleration edicts of See also:Galerius and of See also:Constantine and See also:Licinius were published during his pontificate, which was also marked by the holding of the Lateran See also:synod in See also:Rome (313) at which Caecilianus, See also:bishop of See also:Carthage, was acquitted of the charges brought against him and See also:Donatus condemned . See also:Melchiades was preceded and followed by See also:Eusebius and See also:Silvester I. respectively .

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