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Second Council of Nicaea

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the seventh ecumenical council in 787 which refuted iconoclasm and regulated the veneration of holy images

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Decades after his death, John's writings would play an important role during the Second Council of Nicaea (787), which convened to settle the icon dispute. Source: Internet

The Seventh Ecumenical Council, the Second Council of Nicaea in 787, which rejected iconoclasm and restored the veneration of icons in the churches, was not part of the tradition received by the Reformation. Source: Internet

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