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

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