Nicaea II and the Triumph of Orthodoxy

The two conciliar settlements that made the veneration of icons the settled dogma of the Church: the Seventh Ecumenical Council (Nicaea II, 787), which defined the doctrine and its distinction of veneration from worship; and the Triumph of Orthodoxy (843), the final restoration under the Empress Theodora, commemorated ever since on the First Sunday of Great Lent with the Synodikon of Orthodoxy.

Tradition: Pan-Orthodox

This section closes the doctrinal arc of the collection. The first file, the-seventh-ecumenical-council-787.md, treats Nicaea II — its sessions, its Horos, its reception as the seventh and last of the Ecumenical Councils, and the boundaries it set. The second file, the-triumph-of-orthodoxy-843.md, treats the events of 843, the Synodikon of Orthodoxy read every year, and the sense in which “the Triumph of Orthodoxy” came to name the integrity of the whole Orthodox faith, not merely the defeat of iconoclasm.

Contents

File Description
the-seventh-ecumenical-council-787.md The definition (Horos) of Nicaea II; the sessions; its place among the Ecumenical Councils; the boundaries it set
the-triumph-of-orthodoxy-843.md The restoration of 843; the Synodikon of Orthodoxy; the feast on the First Sunday of Lent; the settled doctrine

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