Who
The seventh ecumenical council, called by the empress Irene and her son Constantine VI and presided over by the patriarch Tarasius, which ended the first period of iconoclasm. It condemned the iconoclast synod of 754 and defined that the images of Christ, his Mother, the angels and the saints may be venerated with honour and reverence, since the honour passes to the one depicted, while adoration belongs to God alone; twenty-two canons followed. The Frankish court, working from a bad translation, answered it in the Caroline Books. Its own texts are on this site in Henry R. Percival's 1900 translation.
Contents
- The Divine Sacra Sent by the Emperors Constantine and Irene to the Most Holy and Most Blessed Hadrian, Pope of Old Rome
- The Imperial Sacra
- Extracts from the Acts. Session I
- Extracts from the Acts. Session II
- Extracts from the Acts. Session III
- Extracts from the Acts. Session IV
- Extracts from the Acts. Session VI
- Epitome of the Definition of the Iconoclastic Conciliabulum held in Constantinople, A.D. 754
- The Decree of the Holy, Great, Ecumenical Synod, the Second of Nice
- Canons
- The Letter of the Synod to the Emperor and Empress
- Editor's introduction and excursus
Quoted in
Canon 1 · Canon 2 · Canon 3 · Canon 4 · Canon 5 · …
Editor's excursus · …
Epitome of the Definition of the Iconoclastic Conciliabulum held in Constantinople, A.D. 754
Session 1
Session 2
Session 3
Session 4
Session 6
The Decree of the Holy, Great, Ecumenical Synod, the Second of Nice
The Divine Sacra Sent by the Emperors Constantine and Irene to the Most Holy and Most Blessed…
The Imperial Sacra
The Letter of the Synod to the Emperor and Empress