Constantine moved the capital to Byzantium which he rebuilt and renamed Constantinople after himself.
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Constantine did not move Constantinople. He founded it. The designated the city of Byzantium (in Greece) as his imperial capital, redeveloped it and renamed it Constantinople after himself (it means City of Constantine).
Constantine designated Byzantium as his imperial seat, redeveloped it and renamed him Constantinople after himself, (it means city of Constantine). Under his predecessor, Diocletian, there were four imperial seats: Nicomedia, Milan, Sirmium and Augusta Trevorum. Rome had ceased to be the capital of he empire.
Constantine I moved the capital of the eastern part of the empire from Nicomedia (in northwestern Turkey) to the nearby Byzantium which was redeveloped and renamed Constantinople. The capital of the western part of the empire was Milan.
Actually, Constantine moved it to Byzantium. He moved there because he thought it had a unique and beautiful background for his people.
No, there were no popes at the time of Constantine. Constantine moved the capital because of economic and logistical reasons. The eighth-century forgery now known as the Donation of Constantine claimed that Constantine moved his imperial capital to the east, in order to grant the pope temporal power in the west. However, nothing in this document was true.