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Second Council of Nicaea | |
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Date | 787 |
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Convoked by | Constantine VI and Empress Irene (as regent) |
President | Patriarch Tarasios of Constantinople, and legates of Pope Adrian I |
Attendance | 308 bishops, 350 members total (including two papal legates) |
Topics | Iconoclasm |
Documents and statements | Veneration of icons approved |
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The Second Council of Nicaea is recognized as the last of the first seven ecumenical councils by the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church. In addition, it is also recognized as such by the Old Catholics, and others. Protestant opinions on it are varied.
It met in 787 AD in Nicaea (site of the First Council of Nicaea; present-day İznik, Bursa, in Turkey), to restore the use and veneration of icons (or holy images),[1] which had been suppressed by imperial edict inside the Byzantine Empire during the reign of Leo III (717–741). His son, Constantine V (741–775), had held the Council of Hieria to make the suppression official.