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The [[Iconoclasm|iconoclast]] '''Council of Hieria''' was a [[Christianity|Christian]] council of 754 which viewed itself as [[ecumenical councils|ecumenical]], but was later rejected by the [[Second Council of Nicaea]] (787) and by [[Catholic]] and [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox]] churches, since none of the five major patriarchs were represented in Hieria. However it is preferred over Second Nicea by some Protestants.<ref name="Hindson"/>
The '''Council of Hieria''' was a [[Christianity|Christian]] council of 754 which viewed itself as [[ecumenical councils|ecumenical]], but was later rejected by the [[Second Council of Nicaea]] (787) and by [[Roman Catholic]] and [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodox]] churches, since four of the five major patriarchs refused to participate. However it is preferred over Second Nicaea by some [[Protestants]].<ref name="Hindson"/> The council was significant in the controversy of [[Byzantine iconoclasm]], condemning the veneration and production of religious [[icon|icons]] as idolatrous and pagan, reflecting [[Byzantine Emperor]] [[Constantine V]]'s [[iconoclasm]].<ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Kazhdan |editor-first1=Alexander P. |editor-last2=Talbot |editor-first2=Alice-Mary |editor-last3=Cutler |editor-first3=Anthony |editor-last4=Gregory |editor-first4=Timothy E. |editor-last5=Ševčenko |editor-first5=Nancy I. |date=1991 |title=The Oxford dictionary of Byzantium |location=New York, NY |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=929 |isbn=0-19-504652-8}}</ref> This council declared itself the 'Seventh Ecumenical Council'.<ref>[http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/icono-cncl754.asp Medieval Sourcebook: Iconoclastic Council, 754] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141023080921/http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/icono-cncl754.asp |date=2014-10-23 }}, Fordham University</ref>


==Background==
The Council of Hieria was summoned by the [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] Emperor [[Constantine V]] in 754 in the palace of [[Hieria]] at Chalcedon.{{sfn|Cormack|2009|p=751}} The council supported the emperor's iconoclast position in the [[Byzantine iconoclasm]] controversy, condemning the spiritual and liturgical use of [[Christian iconography|iconography]] as [[heresy in Christianity|heretical]].
Quotations in the writings of Patriarch [[Nikephoros I of Constantinople]] ({{circa|758}}–828) show that Constantine was a competent theologian. He waited until the [[episcopal see]] of [[Constantinople]] to become vacant, which occurred in January 754 with the death of Patriarch [[Anastasius of Constantinople]], before convoking the council.<ref>{{cite book |last=Auzépy |first=Marie-France |date=2008 |editor-last=Shepard |editor-first=Jonathan |title=The Cambridge history of the Byzantine Empire (c. 500–1492) |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=283 |chapter=State of emergency (700–850) |isbn=978-0-521-83231-1}}</ref>


The council was convoked by Constantine in the palace of [[Hieria]] at Chalcedon,<ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Kazhdan |editor-first1=Alexander P. |editor-last2=Talbot |editor-first2=Alice-Mary |editor-last3=Cutler |editor-first3=Anthony |editor-last4=Gregory |editor-first4=Timothy E. |editor-last5=Ševčenko |editor-first5=Nancy I. |date=1991 |title=The Oxford dictionary of Byzantium |location=New York, NY |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=929 |isbn=0-19-504652-8}}</ref>{{sfn|Cormack|2009|p=751}} and was in session from February to March 754.<ref>{{cite book |last=Auzépy |first=Marie-France |date=2008 |editor-last=Shepard |editor-first=Jonathan |title=The Cambridge history of the Byzantine Empire (c. 500–1492) |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=283 |chapter=State of emergency (700–850) |isbn=978-0-521-83231-1}}</ref>
Opponents of the council described it as the ''Mock Synod of Constantinople'' or the ''Headless Council'' because no patriarchs or representatives of the [[Pentarchy|five great patriarchates]] were present: the [[see of Constantinople]] was vacant; [[Church of Antioch|Antioch]], [[Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem|Jerusalem]] and [[Church of Alexandria|Alexandria]] were under [[Abbasid Caliphate|Islamic dominion]]; while Rome was not asked to participate. Its rulings were [[anathematized]] at the [[Lateran Council (769)|Lateran Council of 769]] before being overturned almost entirely by the [[Second Council of Nicaea]] in 787, which upheld the orthodoxy of and endorsed the [[veneration of icons|veneration of holy images]].


==Images==
==Iconoclasm==
Three hundred and thirty-eight members attended the 754 council. It endorsed Constantine V's [[iconoclast]] position, with the [[bishops]] declaring that "the unlawful art of painting living creatures blasphemed the fundamental doctrine of our salvation—namely, the [[Incarnation of Christ]], and contradicted the six holy synods. [...] If anyone shall endeavour to represent the forms of the [[Saints]] in lifeless pictures with material colours which are of no value (for this notion is vain and introduced by the [[Devil in Christianity|devil]]), and does not rather represent their virtues as living images in himself, etc. [...] let him be [[anathema]]". This council declared itself the 'Seventh Ecumenical Council'.<ref>[http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/icono-cncl754.asp Medieval Sourcebook: Iconoclastic Council, 754], Fordham University</ref>
Three hundred and thirty-eight bishops attended the council, endorsing Constantine V's [[iconoclast]] position. The bishops maintained that the worship of images became widespread after the [[Third Council of Constantinople]] of 680–681.<ref>{{cite book |last=Auzépy |first=Marie-France |date=2008 |editor-last=Shepard |editor-first=Jonathan |title=The Cambridge history of the Byzantine Empire (c. 500–1492) |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=282 |chapter=State of emergency (700–850) |isbn=978-0-521-83231-1}}</ref> They argued that pictorial representation of God is impossible, because an icon of Christ either depicts his humanity alone or confuses his humanity and divinity; which they rule to be [[Nestorianism]] and [[monophysitism]] respectively. They alleconsider the only true image of Christ to be the [[Eucharist]].<ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Kazhdan |editor-first1=Alexander P. |editor-last2=Talbot |editor-first2=Alice-Mary |editor-last3=Cutler |editor-first3=Anthony |editor-last4=Gregory |editor-first4=Timothy E. |editor-last5=Ševčenko |editor-first5=Nancy I. |date=1991 |title=The Oxford dictionary of Byzantium |location=New York, NY |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=929 |isbn=0-19-504652-8}}</ref> The [[bishops]] declared that "the unlawful art of painting living creatures blasphemed the fundamental doctrine of our salvation—namely, the [[Incarnation of Christ]], and contradicted the six holy synods. [...] If anyone shall endeavour to represent the forms of the [[Saints]] in lifeless pictures with material colours which are of no value (for this notion is vain and introduced by the [[Devil in Christianity|devil]]), and does not rather represent their virtues as living images in himself, etc. [...] let him be [[anathema]]". These [[Christological]] arguments represent a development from the arguments of earlier iconoclasts, who appealed to the [[biblical]] condemnation of the production of images in the [[Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image|Second Commandment]].<ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Kazhdan |editor-first1=Alexander P. |editor-last2=Talbot |editor-first2=Alice-Mary |editor-last3=Cutler |editor-first3=Anthony |editor-last4=Gregory |editor-first4=Timothy E. |editor-last5=Ševčenko |editor-first5=Nancy I. |date=1991 |title=The Oxford dictionary of Byzantium |location=New York, NY |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=929 |isbn=0-19-504652-8}}</ref>


Similar pronouncements on the issue of religious images may had been made in the [[Synod of Elvira]] (c. 305) whose [[Canon (canon law)|canon]] 36 states: "[[Aniconism|Pictures are not to be placed in churches]], so that they do not become objects of worship and adoration".<ref>Canon 36, http://www.conorpdowling.com/library/council-of-elvira</ref> If understood this way, it is the earliest such prohibition known.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Canons of the Church Council ELvira (Granada) ca. 309 A.D. |url=http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/elvira.html |access-date=2023-02-21 |website=www.csun.edu}}</ref> Though a more formal translation would suggest that the canon is actually about not having images painted directly into the walls in order to protect them from vandalism.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Catholic Encyclopedia: Council of Elvira |url=https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05395b.htm |access-date=2023-02-21 |website=www.newadvent.org}}</ref>
Similar pronouncements on the issue of religious images may had been made in the [[Synod of Elvira]] ({{circa|305}}) whose [[Canon (canon law)|Canon]] 36 states: "[[Aniconism|Pictures are not to be placed in churches]], so that they do not become objects of worship and adoration".<ref>Canon 36, http://www.conorpdowling.com/library/council-of-elvira {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106195812/http://www.conorpdowling.com/library/council-of-elvira |date=2018-11-06 }}</ref> If understood this way, it is the earliest such prohibition known.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Canons of the Church Council ELvira (Granada) ca. 309 A.D. |url=http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/elvira.html |access-date=2023-02-21 |website=www.csun.edu}}</ref> Though a more formal translation would suggest that the canon is actually about not having images painted directly into the walls in order to protect them from vandalism.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Catholic Encyclopedia: Council of Elvira |url=https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05395b.htm |access-date=2023-02-21 |website=www.newadvent.org}}</ref>


The council represents a moderate party of iconoclasts which affirmed the [[intercession of saints]] and [[Mary, mother of Jesus]], as evidenced by one of its [[anathema|anathemas]] against the one who "does not ask for [the prayers of Mary and the saints] as having the freedom to intercede on behalf of the world according to the tradition of the church".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Krausmüller |first1=Dirk |date=2015 |title=Contextualizing Constantine V's radical religious policies: the debate about the intercession of the saints and the 'sleep of the soul' in the Chalcedonian and Nestorian churches |journal=Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies |volume=39 |issue=1 |pages=26, 48}}</ref> It is debated among scholars whether Constantine remained faithful to the moderate position or later shifted to the radical view in which the intercession of Mary and saints was denied on the grounds of '[[Christian mortalism|soul-sleep]]'. This view is reported by later iconodule sources who may have exaggerated for polemical purposes, thus their reliability is questioned in modern scholarship.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Krausmüller |first1=Dirk |date=2015 |title=Contextualizing Constantine V's radical religious policies: the debate about the intercession of the saints and the 'sleep of the soul' in the Chalcedonian and Nestorian churches |journal=Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies |volume=39 |issue=1 |pages=25–49}}</ref>
The council was an pivotal point in the prosecution of iconophiles, monks were executed and every painting and even book miniatures were removed, this represents a further action after Leo III iconoclasm fight to finally restore the Roman church believes by Theodora in 843.


==Reception==
==Legitimacy of the Council==
Opponents of the council described it as the ''Mock Synod of Constantinople'' or the ''Headless Council'' because no patriarchs or representatives of the [[Pentarchy|five great patriarchates]] were present: the [[see of Constantinople]] was vacant; [[Church of Antioch|Antioch]], [[Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem|Jerusalem]] and [[Church of Alexandria|Alexandria]] were under [[Abbasid Caliphate|Islamic dominion]]; while Rome was not asked to participate. Its rulings were [[anathematized]] at the [[Lateran Council (769)|Lateran Council of 769]],<ref>{{cite book |last=Auzépy |first=Marie-France |date=2008 |editor-last=Shepard |editor-first=Jonathan |title=The Cambridge history of the Byzantine Empire (c. 500–1492) |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=284 |chapter=State of emergency (700–850) |isbn=978-0-521-83231-1}}</ref> before being overturned almost entirely by the [[Second Council of Nicaea]] in 787, which endorsed and upheld the orthodoxy of the [[veneration of icons|veneration of holy images]]. After the later triumph of the [[iconodule]]s, this council became known as a [[Latrocinium|robber council]], i.e. as [[Biblical canon|uncanonical]], because there were neither the patriarchs nor representatives of patriarchs present. Edward J. Martin describes the later judgment of the council.<ref name="martin1">Edward J. Martin, ''A History of the Iconoclastic Controversy'', p. 46</ref>{{blockquote|On the ecumenical character of the Council there are graver doubts. Its president was Theodosius, archbishop of Ephesus, son of the Emperor Apsimar. He was supported by Sisinnius, bishop of Perga, also known as Pastillas, and by Basil of Antioch in Pisidia, styled Tricaccabus. Not a single Patriarch was present. The see of Constantinople was vacant. Whether the Pope and the Patriarchs of Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem were invited or not is unknown. They were not present either in person or by deputy. The Council of Nicaea [II] considered this was a serious flaw in the legitimacy of the Council. 'It had not the co-operation of the Roman Pope of the period nor of his clergy, either by representative or by encyclical letter, as the law of Councils requires.'<ref name="mansi1">citing [[J. D. Mansi]], XIII, 207d</ref> The ''Life of Stephen'' borrows this objection from the Acts and embroiders it to suit the spirit of the age of Theodore. It had not the approval of the Pope of Rome, although the modern day Catholic theologians assert that there is a canon that no ecclesiastical measures may be passed without the Pope.'<ref name="steph">citing Vit Steph, 1144c</ref> The absence of the other Patriarchs is then noticed.<ref name="mansi1"/>}} The council and its Christological arguments were later refuted as heretical by Nicaea II,<ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Kazhdan |editor-first1=Alexander P. |editor-last2=Talbot |editor-first2=Alice-Mary |editor-last3=Cutler |editor-first3=Anthony |editor-last4=Gregory |editor-first4=Timothy E. |editor-last5=Ševčenko |editor-first5=Nancy I. |date=1991 |title=The Oxford dictionary of Byzantium |location=New York, NY |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=929 |isbn=0-19-504652-8}}</ref> and also by the [[Council of Constantinople (843)]] which reasserted the significance of icons in the Church. During the second period of Byzantine iconoclasm, Emperor [[Leo V the Armenian]] overtured Nicaea II and reinstated Hieria. However, rather than regarding icons as idolatrous, they were merely considered superfluous, and images that were suspended high up (which could not therefore be actively venerated) were not removed. However the definitive re-establishment of iconodulia was effected under Patriarch [[Methodios I of Constantinople]], and by the 850s iconoclasm was defeated.<ref>{{cite book |last=Auzépy |first=Marie-France |date=2008 |editor-last=Shepard |editor-first=Jonathan |title=The Cambridge history of the Byzantine Empire (c. 500–1492) |publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages=289–290 |chapter=State of emergency (700–850) |isbn=978-0-521-83231-1}}</ref>
After the later triumph of the [[Iconodule]]s, this council became known as a [[Latrocinium|robber council]], i.e. as [[Biblical canon|uncanonical]].


Some Protestants accept the council as legitimate.<ref>Ed Hindson and Dan Mitchell, "The Popular Encyclopedia of Church History", p. 129. See also: https://heidelblog.net/2018/12/the-case-of-the-8th-century-iconoclasts-against-images-of-christ/</ref>
Edward J. Martin writes,<ref name="martin1">Edward J. Martin, ''A History of the Iconoclastic Controversy'', p. 46</ref> "On the ecumenical character of the Council there are graver doubts. Its president was Theodosius, archbishop of Ephesus, son of the Emperor Apsimar. He was supported by Sisinnius, bishop of Perga, also known as Pastillas, and by Basil of Antioch in Pisidia, styled Tricaccabus. Not a single Patriarch was present. The see of Constantinople was vacant. Whether the Pope and the Patriarchs of Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem were invited or not is unknown. They were not present either in person or by deputy. The Council of Nicaea [II] considered this was a serious flaw in the legitimacy of the Council. 'It had not the co-operation of the Roman Pope of the period nor of his clergy, either by representative or by encyclical letter, as the law of Councils requires.'<ref name="mansi1">citing [[J. D. Mansi]], XIII, 207d</ref> The ''Life of Stephen'' borrows this objection from the Acts and embroiders it to suit the spirit of the age of Theodore. It had not the approval of the Pope of Rome, although the modern day Catholic theologians assert that there is a canon that no ecclesiastical measures may be passed without the Pope.'<ref name="steph">citing Vit Steph, 1144c</ref> The absence of the other Patriarchs is then noticed."<ref name="mansi1"/> The council was later refuted at the [[Council of Constantinople (843)]] which reasserted the significance of icons in the Church.

Some Protestants embrace the legitimacy of the council.<ref>Ed Hindson and Dan Mitchell, "The Popular Encyclopedia of Church History", p. 129. See also: https://heidelblog.net/2018/12/the-case-of-the-8th-century-iconoclasts-against-images-of-christ/</ref>


==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
*[https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf214.xvi.x.html Canons of the council in ''Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers'']
*[http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-14/Npnf2-14-164.htm CCEL]


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Council of Hieria
Date754
Accepted by
Previous council
Convoked byConstantine V
PresidentArchbishop Theodosius of Ephesus
Attendance338 bishops
TopicsIconoclasm
Documents and statements
veneration of icons condemned
Chronological list of ecumenical councils

The Council of Hieria was a Christian council of 754 which viewed itself as ecumenical, but was later rejected by the Second Council of Nicaea (787) and by Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches, since four of the five major patriarchs refused to participate. However it is preferred over Second Nicaea by some Protestants.[1] The council was significant in the controversy of Byzantine iconoclasm, condemning the veneration and production of religious icons as idolatrous and pagan, reflecting Byzantine Emperor Constantine V's iconoclasm.[2] This council declared itself the 'Seventh Ecumenical Council'.[3]

Background

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Quotations in the writings of Patriarch Nikephoros I of Constantinople (c. 758–828) show that Constantine was a competent theologian. He waited until the episcopal see of Constantinople to become vacant, which occurred in January 754 with the death of Patriarch Anastasius of Constantinople, before convoking the council.[4]

The council was convoked by Constantine in the palace of Hieria at Chalcedon,[5][6] and was in session from February to March 754.[7]

Iconoclasm

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Three hundred and thirty-eight bishops attended the council, endorsing Constantine V's iconoclast position. The bishops maintained that the worship of images became widespread after the Third Council of Constantinople of 680–681.[8] They argued that pictorial representation of God is impossible, because an icon of Christ either depicts his humanity alone or confuses his humanity and divinity; which they rule to be Nestorianism and monophysitism respectively. They alleconsider the only true image of Christ to be the Eucharist.[9] The bishops declared that "the unlawful art of painting living creatures blasphemed the fundamental doctrine of our salvation—namely, the Incarnation of Christ, and contradicted the six holy synods. [...] If anyone shall endeavour to represent the forms of the Saints in lifeless pictures with material colours which are of no value (for this notion is vain and introduced by the devil), and does not rather represent their virtues as living images in himself, etc. [...] let him be anathema". These Christological arguments represent a development from the arguments of earlier iconoclasts, who appealed to the biblical condemnation of the production of images in the Second Commandment.[10]

Similar pronouncements on the issue of religious images may had been made in the Synod of Elvira (c. 305) whose Canon 36 states: "Pictures are not to be placed in churches, so that they do not become objects of worship and adoration".[11] If understood this way, it is the earliest such prohibition known.[12] Though a more formal translation would suggest that the canon is actually about not having images painted directly into the walls in order to protect them from vandalism.[13]

The council represents a moderate party of iconoclasts which affirmed the intercession of saints and Mary, mother of Jesus, as evidenced by one of its anathemas against the one who "does not ask for [the prayers of Mary and the saints] as having the freedom to intercede on behalf of the world according to the tradition of the church".[14] It is debated among scholars whether Constantine remained faithful to the moderate position or later shifted to the radical view in which the intercession of Mary and saints was denied on the grounds of 'soul-sleep'. This view is reported by later iconodule sources who may have exaggerated for polemical purposes, thus their reliability is questioned in modern scholarship.[15]

Reception

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Opponents of the council described it as the Mock Synod of Constantinople or the Headless Council because no patriarchs or representatives of the five great patriarchates were present: the see of Constantinople was vacant; Antioch, Jerusalem and Alexandria were under Islamic dominion; while Rome was not asked to participate. Its rulings were anathematized at the Lateran Council of 769,[16] before being overturned almost entirely by the Second Council of Nicaea in 787, which endorsed and upheld the orthodoxy of the veneration of holy images. After the later triumph of the iconodules, this council became known as a robber council, i.e. as uncanonical, because there were neither the patriarchs nor representatives of patriarchs present. Edward J. Martin describes the later judgment of the council.[17]

On the ecumenical character of the Council there are graver doubts. Its president was Theodosius, archbishop of Ephesus, son of the Emperor Apsimar. He was supported by Sisinnius, bishop of Perga, also known as Pastillas, and by Basil of Antioch in Pisidia, styled Tricaccabus. Not a single Patriarch was present. The see of Constantinople was vacant. Whether the Pope and the Patriarchs of Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem were invited or not is unknown. They were not present either in person or by deputy. The Council of Nicaea [II] considered this was a serious flaw in the legitimacy of the Council. 'It had not the co-operation of the Roman Pope of the period nor of his clergy, either by representative or by encyclical letter, as the law of Councils requires.'[18] The Life of Stephen borrows this objection from the Acts and embroiders it to suit the spirit of the age of Theodore. It had not the approval of the Pope of Rome, although the modern day Catholic theologians assert that there is a canon that no ecclesiastical measures may be passed without the Pope.'[19] The absence of the other Patriarchs is then noticed.[18]

The council and its Christological arguments were later refuted as heretical by Nicaea II,[20] and also by the Council of Constantinople (843) which reasserted the significance of icons in the Church. During the second period of Byzantine iconoclasm, Emperor Leo V the Armenian overtured Nicaea II and reinstated Hieria. However, rather than regarding icons as idolatrous, they were merely considered superfluous, and images that were suspended high up (which could not therefore be actively venerated) were not removed. However the definitive re-establishment of iconodulia was effected under Patriarch Methodios I of Constantinople, and by the 850s iconoclasm was defeated.[21]

Some Protestants accept the council as legitimate.[22]

References

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  1. ^ a b Hindson, Ed; Mitchell, Dan (2013). The Popular Encyclopedia of Church History: The People, Places, and Events That Shaped Christianity. Harvest House Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7369-4806-7.
  2. ^ Kazhdan, Alexander P.; Talbot, Alice-Mary; Cutler, Anthony; Gregory, Timothy E.; Ševčenko, Nancy I., eds. (1991). The Oxford dictionary of Byzantium. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. p. 929. ISBN 0-19-504652-8.
  3. ^ Medieval Sourcebook: Iconoclastic Council, 754 Archived 2014-10-23 at the Wayback Machine, Fordham University
  4. ^ Auzépy, Marie-France (2008). "State of emergency (700–850)". In Shepard, Jonathan (ed.). The Cambridge history of the Byzantine Empire (c. 500–1492). Cambridge University Press. p. 283. ISBN 978-0-521-83231-1.
  5. ^ Kazhdan, Alexander P.; Talbot, Alice-Mary; Cutler, Anthony; Gregory, Timothy E.; Ševčenko, Nancy I., eds. (1991). The Oxford dictionary of Byzantium. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. p. 929. ISBN 0-19-504652-8.
  6. ^ Cormack 2009, p. 751.
  7. ^ Auzépy, Marie-France (2008). "State of emergency (700–850)". In Shepard, Jonathan (ed.). The Cambridge history of the Byzantine Empire (c. 500–1492). Cambridge University Press. p. 283. ISBN 978-0-521-83231-1.
  8. ^ Auzépy, Marie-France (2008). "State of emergency (700–850)". In Shepard, Jonathan (ed.). The Cambridge history of the Byzantine Empire (c. 500–1492). Cambridge University Press. p. 282. ISBN 978-0-521-83231-1.
  9. ^ Kazhdan, Alexander P.; Talbot, Alice-Mary; Cutler, Anthony; Gregory, Timothy E.; Ševčenko, Nancy I., eds. (1991). The Oxford dictionary of Byzantium. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. p. 929. ISBN 0-19-504652-8.
  10. ^ Kazhdan, Alexander P.; Talbot, Alice-Mary; Cutler, Anthony; Gregory, Timothy E.; Ševčenko, Nancy I., eds. (1991). The Oxford dictionary of Byzantium. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. p. 929. ISBN 0-19-504652-8.
  11. ^ Canon 36, http://www.conorpdowling.com/library/council-of-elvira Archived 2018-11-06 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ "Canons of the Church Council ELvira (Granada) ca. 309 A.D." www.csun.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  13. ^ "Catholic Encyclopedia: Council of Elvira". www.newadvent.org. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  14. ^ Krausmüller, Dirk (2015). "Contextualizing Constantine V's radical religious policies: the debate about the intercession of the saints and the 'sleep of the soul' in the Chalcedonian and Nestorian churches". Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. 39 (1): 26, 48.
  15. ^ Krausmüller, Dirk (2015). "Contextualizing Constantine V's radical religious policies: the debate about the intercession of the saints and the 'sleep of the soul' in the Chalcedonian and Nestorian churches". Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. 39 (1): 25–49.
  16. ^ Auzépy, Marie-France (2008). "State of emergency (700–850)". In Shepard, Jonathan (ed.). The Cambridge history of the Byzantine Empire (c. 500–1492). Cambridge University Press. p. 284. ISBN 978-0-521-83231-1.
  17. ^ Edward J. Martin, A History of the Iconoclastic Controversy, p. 46
  18. ^ a b citing J. D. Mansi, XIII, 207d
  19. ^ citing Vit Steph, 1144c
  20. ^ Kazhdan, Alexander P.; Talbot, Alice-Mary; Cutler, Anthony; Gregory, Timothy E.; Ševčenko, Nancy I., eds. (1991). The Oxford dictionary of Byzantium. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. p. 929. ISBN 0-19-504652-8.
  21. ^ Auzépy, Marie-France (2008). "State of emergency (700–850)". In Shepard, Jonathan (ed.). The Cambridge history of the Byzantine Empire (c. 500–1492). Cambridge University Press. pp. 289–290. ISBN 978-0-521-83231-1.
  22. ^ Ed Hindson and Dan Mitchell, "The Popular Encyclopedia of Church History", p. 129. See also: https://heidelblog.net/2018/12/the-case-of-the-8th-century-iconoclasts-against-images-of-christ/

Sources

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  • Cormack, Robin (2009). "Art and Iconoclasm". In Jeffreys, Elizabeth; Haldon, John; Cormack, Robin (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies (Oxford Handbooks). Oxford University Press.
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