Originally Posted by Mbwuto

Well, I get the feeling that a lot of people wish he was black, but no one is completely sure. Of course when Miltiades was ordained the Europeans hadn't quite settled into their role as Christians. Just a few years before Emperor Diocletian had persecuted Christians, though a decade after that Constantine embraces Christianity. I think they were too busy trying to stay together to develop racist issues within the church. (To be fair I knew none of this off the top of my head).

I like to think Miltiades was black, but the more I think the less sure I am. I do know that Africa had been exposed to Christianity by that time, mostly in the north of course, by the Meditteranean.