The Edict of Milan was an agreement reached on February 13, 313 AD between Western Roman Emperor Constantine I and Emperor Licinius, who ruled the Balkans, when the two met at Mediolanum, the city now known as Milan. Building on an earlier edict of toleration Emperor Galerius had issued two years before at Serdica, the two emperors agreed to change Roman policy toward Christians and treat them with benevolence, giving Christianity legal standing and ending its persecution across the empire. The edict did not make Christianity the empire's official religion, which happened only in 380 AD under the separate Edict of Thessalonica.
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