Events Tagged: "icons"

Leo III begins Iconoclasm - bans religious images, century of theological civil war begins

St. Paul I becomes ninety-third pope - brother of Stephen II, strengthens Frankish alliance

Stephen III becomes ninety-fourth pope - condemns iconoclasm at Lateran Council

Second Council of Nicaea - Empress Irene restores icon veneration temporarily

Restoration of Icons - Empress Theodora definitively restores icon veneration, Feast of Orthodoxy established