Portal:Second Council of Nicaea
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The Second Council of Nicaea met in AD 787 in Nicaea (site of the First Council of Nicaea; present-day İznik in Turkey) to restore the use and veneration of icons (or, holy images), which had been suppressed by imperial edict inside the Byzantine Empire during the reign of Leo III.
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Works
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[edit]- The Seventh Ecumenical Council, translated by Philip Schaff et al.
Works about the Second Council of Nicaea
[edit]- "Councils of Nicæa," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
- "Nicaea, Council of," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)