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Second Council of Nicaea

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Second Council of Nicaea 787, 7th ecumenical council, convened by Byzantine Empress Irene . Called to refute iconoclasm , the council declared that images ought to be venerated (but not worshiped) and ordered them restored in churches. Practically the only Western delegates were the papal legates, but popes have confirmed the conciliar canons. It is the last council accepted by both the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Eastern Church as ecumenical.

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Nicaea, Second Council of

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Nicaea, Second Council of (787). The seventh Oecumenical Council, convoked by the Empress Irene to end the Iconoclastic Controversy. The Council declared its adherence to the doctrine on the veneration of images expounded in a letter from Pope Hadrian I, adding that such veneration is a matter of respect and honour (not the adoration due to God alone), the honour given to the image passing on to its prototype.

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Nicaea, Councils of

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Nicaea, Councils of Two important ecumenical councils of the Christian Church held in Nicaea (modern Iznik, Turkey). The first was convoked in ad 325 to resolve the problems caused by the emergence of Arianism. It promulgated a creed, affirming belief in the divinity of Christ. The second, held in 787, was summoned by the patriarch Tarasius to deal with the problem of the worship of icons.

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