Just a little more than 100 years after Constantineís Edict, Pope Leo the Great
stated that:
ì...it was the custom of many Christians to stand on the steps
of St. Peter and pay homage to the Sun by obeisance and
prayers.î 4 (emphasis mine)To those that sincerely followed Christ during the reign of Constantine, his
religious change was a mere smoke screen. The True Church considered his
profession little more than a renunciation of a formality.
In 325 AD Constantine set of the Council of Nicaea, presiding over it as
Summus Pontifex; which in modern times is the official title of the pope of Rome.
It was from that council that the Roman Catholic Church evolved.