edict · 260 · Rome
In 260 Gallienus rescinded his father's edicts and — in a rescript Eusebius preserves — restored to the bishops their churches and cemeteries. It was the church's first legal recognition, and it opened the forty years' peace that ended only with Diocletian.
Unwinding his father's disastrous persecution edicts.
Churches and cemeteries restored to the bishops — the first legal recognition, opening the forty years' peace.