Tiberius Claudius Nero - Emperor of Rome
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When he was three years old, his mother, Livia, divorced his father and married Augustus, who became 12 years later the first Emperor of Rome.
After a successful military career and with the death of his step-father in 14 AD, Tiberius became the second Emperor of Rome.
In general, as an Emperor, Tiberius continued the policy of religious tolerance which was instituted by his predecessors, Julius Caesar and Augustus. When the Roman governor of Judea, Pontius Pilate placed shields with dedicatory inscriptions to the Emperor at Herod's palace in Jerusalem, Tiberius ordered their removal to avoid the offending of Jewish faith.
During the time of Tiberius' reign, Jesus of Nazareth preached and was crucified in Jerusalem, under the authority of Pontius Pilate. Tiberius is mentioned in the Gospels by his name only once, in Luke 3:1: "In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar—when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee… the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness."
In 20 AD Herod Antipas, ruler of the Galilee, founded the city of Tiberias and named it after the Emperor.
Emperor Tiberius died in 37 AD at the age of 79.
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