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The 17 pages that link to Second Council of Nicaea, each with the reason it gives.

• IconoclasmRelated: Its ruling ended the first major Byzantine iconoclast period.

• RelicRelated: Its rulings connected relics with formal church practice and the defense of sacred images.

• Ecumenical councilBroader topic: Its decision resolved the Byzantine controversy over icons.

• Christian iconographyRelated: Its ruling supplied a theological defense for religious images in the Byzantine tradition.

• IconRelated: Its decree distinguished the veneration offered to icons from the worship owed to God.

• Byzantine IconoclasmBroader topic: It ended the first official phase by distinguishing veneration from worship.

• Christian artRelated: Its rulings shaped later defenses of sacred images in Eastern Christianity.

• IdolatryBroader topic: The council distinguished permissible veneration from the worship reserved for God.

• AniconismRelated: Its decisions distinguished honoring images from worshiping them.

• John of DamascusRelated: The council later endorsed the distinction between icon veneration and worship defended by John.

• Leo III the IsaurianCompared with: It reversed the religious position Leo had introduced several decades earlier.

• Theodore the StuditeRelated: Its teaching supplied a foundation Theodore defended and developed during the later iconoclast crisis.

• NicaeaBroader topic: This later council reinforced Nicaea's religious prominence.

• Veneration of saintsRelated: Its ruling supported devotional images of Christ, Mary, and the saints.

• Religious artBroader topic: Its rulings distinguished the veneration of images from the worship owed to God.

• Irene of AthensBroader topic: Irene and Patriarch Tarasios convened it, reversing the iconoclast settlement of 754.

• Pope Gregory IIBroader topic: It later gave formal conciliar resolution to the image controversy Gregory opposed.