Pope Miltiades
Miltiades, or
Melchiades (other forms of the name being Meltiades, Melciades, Milciades, and Miltides) was
Pope from
July 10,
310 to January 10 or 11,
314. He apppears to have been an
African by birth, but of his personal history nothing is known. The Edicts of Toleration of
Galerius and of
Constantine and
Licinius were published during his pontificate, which was also marked by the holding of the Lateran Synod in Rome (
313) at which Caecilianus was acquitted of the charges brought against him, and
Donatus condemned as a heretic.
From the 9th edition (1880s) of an unnameable encyclopedia.