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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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

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

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