Galerius
c. 258 CE–c. 311 CE · Sofia
Galerius was the eastern Augustus of the Tetrarchy and is identified in the contemporary Christian sources (notably Lactantius) as the principal instigator of the Diocletianic ("Great") Persecution of Christians, which Diocletian launched, reportedly at Galerius's urging, beginning in 303. Gravely ill near the end of his life, in April 311 he issued the Edict of Serdica (Edict of Toleration), which formally ended the persecution and granted Christians legal recognition (religio licita) to practice their religion. He died days later, in early May 311 (traditionally 5 May), shortly after the edict was promulgated.
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Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. Angelo Roncalli, the future John XXIII, served as apostolic visitor and delegate to Bulgaria (based in Sofia) in the 1920s-30s.
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Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Galerius’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Graeco-Roman world
- Diophantus Alexandrinus· 210 CE–290 CE
- Dexippus· 210 CE–273 CE
- Quintillus· 212 CE–270 CE
- Aurelian· 214 CE–275 CE
- Claudius Gothicus· 214 CE–270 CE
- Gallienus· 218 CE–268 CE
- Tryphiodorus· 220 CE–280 CE
- Carus· 222 CE–283 CE
- Probus· 232 CE–282 CE
- Florianus· 232 CE–276 CE
- Porphyrius· 234 CE–305 CE
- Iamblichus· 242 CE–325 CE
- Diocletian· 244 CE–311 CE
- Maximian· 250 CE–310 CE
- Constantius Chlorus· 250 CE–306 CE
- Menander Rhetor· 250 CE–290 CE
- Carinus· 250 CE–285 CE
- Numerian· 253 CE–284 CE
- Licinius· 265 CE–325 CE
- Maximinus Daza· 270 CE–313 CE
- Constantine the Great· 272 CE–337 CE
- Maxentius· 278 CE–312 CE
- Pappus Alexandrinus· 290 CE–350 CE
- Severus II· –307 CE
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