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Group: HAMAS (Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya or "Islamic Resistance Movement")
Topic: Year of the Five Emperors, or Roman Civil War of 193
Location: Mogontiacum > Mainz Rheinland-Pfalz Germany

The Holy See had been vacant for …

Years: 261 - 261

The Holy See had been vacant for nearly a year following the martyrdom of Sixtus II, due yo difficulty in electing a new Pope during the violent persecution which Christians faced.

When the persecution had begun to subside, Dionysius was raised to the office of Bishop of Rome.

Upon his father's capture, Gallienus had put an end to the persecution of the Christians and given the Church legal status, preferring to fight the new religion through intellectual means; to that end, he favors the ancient Greek cults (Demeter of Eleusis) and protects the Neoplatonist philosopher Plotinus.

These initiatives increase the number of his enemies, particularly among the patriotic senators and the Pannonian generals.

Gallienus himself is left in control only of Italy and the Balkans.

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Southwest Europe (261 - 261)
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Mediterranean Southwest Europe (261 - 261)