# Constantine summons the Council of Arles as a public episcopal hearing on the African Donatist quarrel

Date: 314

## The fact

The 1 August 314 Arles sitting is the dated conciliar hearing. Constantine’s documented role is: He convened and underwrote travel. Bishops judged. This hearing is a different instrument from the later 316 coercion row. Do not merge with co-donatist-coercion. Hearing versus later coercion. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Constantine's documented role is: He convened and underwrote travel. Bishops judged. This hearing is a different instrument from the later 316 coercion row.

## Context

Arles in Gaul. Caecilian versus Donatist appellants. Milan 313 is already stored as the property-restoration instrument. Named others on the file: Marinus of Arles as received chair; unnamed western bishops; Caecilian as the African file. The public setting is the file around 0314-08-01. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. The instrument stays Constantine summons the Council of Arles as a public episcopal hearing on the African Donatist quarrel. The setting of Constantine summons the Council of Arles as a public episcopal hearing on the African Donatist quarrel is the public file around 0314-08-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver justice-[judicial-independence](/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion)-erosion is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## Evidence and sources

The Fourth Century documentary page and Britannica independently place Constantine behind the 314 Arles council. Official: Fourth Century Christianity — The Council of Arles (AD 314) (https://www.fourthcentury.com/the-council-of-arles-ad-314/; Wisconsin Lutheran College / Fourth Century Christianity). Independent: Britannica — Constantine I (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Constantine-I-Roman-emperor; Encyclopaedia Britannica). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Fourth Century Christianity — The Council of Arles (AD 314) (https://www.fourthcentury.com/the-council-of-arles-ad-314/; Wisconsin Lutheran College / Fourth Century Christianity). Independent carrier: Britannica — Constantine I (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Constantine-I-Roman-emperor; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Fourth Century Christianity — The Council of Arles (AD 314) (https://www.fourthcentury.com/the-council-of-arles-ad-314/; Wisconsin Lutheran College / Fourth Century Christianity).

## Significance

Conciliar legal access. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is An imperial-backed episcopal council is a legal-access path before later force. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

Shared responsibility is part of Constantine summons the Council of Arles as a public episcopal hearing on the African Donatist quarrel. Naming Constantine does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 0314-08-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## What is established and what is not

Canons and letters, not a tape of every vote. Established: a sourced public record of Constantine summons the Council of Arles as a public episcopal hearing on the African Donatist quarrel under 0314-08-01. Established: a sourced public record of Constantine summons the Council of Arles as a public episcopal hearing on the African Donatist quarrel under 0314-08-01.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not merge with co-donatist-coercion. Hearing versus later coercion. Mixed effects of Constantine summons the Council of Arles as a public episcopal hearing on the African Donatist quarrel are separate paths.

## People

- Constantine the Great: https://factrail.ai/people/constantine-the-great

## Drivers

- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion

## Sources

- https://www.fourthcentury.com/the-council-of-arles-ad-314/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Constantine-I-Roman-emperor

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/co-arles-314