Following the death of his son Leo IV in 780, the empress Irene restored the veneration of images through the agency of the Second Council of Nicaea in 787.

Much more than the Second Council of Nicaea ( 787 ) the Council fathers of Trent stressed the pedagogical purpose of Christian images.

However this is not inflexible as the iconoclasm controversy was instigated by order of an ecumenical council ( Council of Hieria ), which took another ecumenical council ( Second Council of Nicaea 787 ) to reverse.

In the history of Christianity, the First seven Ecumenical Councils, from the First Council of Nicaea ( 325 ) to the Second Council of Nicaea ( 787 ), represent an attempt to reach an orthodox consensus and to unify Christendom under the State church of the Roman Empire.

# Second Council of Nicaea ( 787 ) restored the veneration of icons ( condemned at the Council of Hieria, 754 ) and repudiated iconoclasm. This council is rejected by some Protestant denominations, which condemn the veneration of icons.

A letter Eusebius is supposed to have written to Constantine's daughter Constanza, refusing to fulfill her request for images of Christ, was quoted in the decrees ( now lost ) of the Iconoclast Council of Hieria in 754, and later quoted in part in the rebuttal of the Hieria decrees in the Second Council of Nicaea of 787, now the only source from which some of the text is known.

The Seventh Ecumenical Council, the Second Council of Nicaea in 787, which rejected iconoclasm and restored the veneration of icons in the churches, was not part of the tradition received by the Reformation.

Second Session ( September 26, 787 ) -- Papal legates read the letters of Pope Hadrian I asking for agreement with veneration of images, to which question the bishops of the council answered: " We follow, we receive, we admit ".

The first seven Ecumenical Councils, from the First Council of Nicaea ( 325 ) to the Second Council of Nicaea ( 787 ), represent an attempt to reach an orthodox consensus and to establish a unified Christendom as the State church of the Roman Empire.

The church of Hagia Sophia was built by Justinian I in the middle of the city in the 6th century ( modelled after the larger Hagia Sophia in Constantinople ), and it was there that the Second Council of Nicaea met in 787 to discuss the issues of iconography.

The Second Council of Nicaea in 787 decreed that every altar should contain a relic, making it clear that this was already the norm, as it remains to the present day in the Catholic and Orthodox churches.

The Second Council of Nicaea ( 787 ) included Germanus in the diptychs of the saints.

In 787 Constantine had signed the decrees of the Second Council of Nicaea, but he appears to have had iconoclast sympathies.

In this position of leadership, he was present at the Second General Council of Nicaea in 787, and signed its decrees in defense of the veneration of icons.

* Second Council of Nicaea in AD 787

Ritual ceremonies around an altar are common in paganism, and ritual prayer dances around an altar were practiced by early Christians, especially Gnostics, before the practice was condemned as a heresy by the Second Council of Nicaea in 787 A. D. ( See Nibley, " The Early Christian Prayer Circle ", page 41.

Leucius, called Leucius Charinus by the Patriarch Photios I of Constantinople in the ninth century, is the name applied to a cycle of what M. R. James termed " Apostolic romances " that seem to have had wide currency long before a selection were read aloud at the Second Council of Nicaea ( 787 ) and rejected.

* Hagia Sophia, the church in Iznik, Turkey ( formerly Nicaea ), where the Second Council of Nicaea met in 787

Double monasteries were forbidden by the Second Council of Nicaea in 787, though it took many years for the decree to be enforced.

The most obvious doctrinal explanation for this shift lies in the twentieth canon of the seventh ecumenical synod declared at the Second Council of Nicaea in 787.

The Second Council of Nicea in 787 confirmed that the depiction of Christ was allowed because he became man ; the situation regarding the Father was less clear.

* 787: Second Ecumenical Council of Nicaea resolved Iconoclasm.

Veneration of icons was restored by the Second Council of Nicaea ( Seventh Ecumenical Council ) in 787.

The Second Council of Nicaea held in 787 reversed the decisions of that council.

The second Council of Nicaea, AD 787, recognized the right of abbots to ordain their monks to the inferior orders below the diaconate, a power usually reserved to bishops.

It met in AD 787 in Nicaea ( site of the First Council of Nicaea ; present-day İznik in Turkey ) to restore the use and veneration of icons ( or, holy images ), which had been suppressed by imperial edict inside the Byzantine Empire during the reign of Leo III ( 717 – 741 ).

* 787: The Empress Irene of Athens convenes the Seventh Ecumenical Council, ending the first phase of Byzantine Iconoclasm.

This distinction is spelled out in the dogmatic conclusions of the Seventh Ecumenical Council ( 787 ), which also decreed that iconoclasm ( forbidding icons and their veneration ) is a heresy that amounts to a denial of the incarnation of Jesus.

The council was reassembled at Nicaea 24 September 787.

The seventh general council, the second of Nicaea, held A. D. 787, in which the worship of images was established with copious notes from the " Caroline books ", compiled by order of Charlemagne for its confutation, London, W. E.

The second, convened at Nicaea in 787, formally revived the veneration of icons and reunited the Eastern church with that of Rome.

The mutinous troops were removed from the city, and the legates reassembled at Nicaea in September 787.

In the East abbots, if in priests ' orders and with the consent of the bishop, were, as we have seen, permitted by the second Nicene council, AD 787, to confer the tonsure and admit to the order of reader ; but gradually abbots, in the West also, advanced higher claims, until we find them in AD 1489 permitted by Innocent IV to confer both the subdiaconate and diaconate.

* Nagaoka no Okanari ( 長岡岡成 ) (?– 848 ), removed from the Imperial Family by receiving the family name from Emperor ( Shisei Kōka, 賜姓降下 ) in 787

While the side-stick offers the advantages of being lighter, mechanically simpler, and unobtrusive, The Boeing Company's aerospace engineers decided that the lack of visual feedback ( none given by side-sticks ) is a significant problem, and so they designed conventional control yokes in the Boeing 777 and the Boeing 787, which entered service on 26 October 2011 with All Nippon Airways.

For summary conviction offences that fall under the jurisdiction of the federal government ( which includes all criminal law ), section 787 of the Criminal Code of Canada specifies that, unless another punishment is provided for by law, the maximum penalty for a summary conviction offence is a sentence of 6 months of imprisonment, a fine of $ 5, 000 or both.

Of the 94, 787 inhabitants of the city ( as of 1 January 2010 ), about 12, 000 live in the ancient town centre surrounded by its medieval ramparts.

Charlemagne, advised by Peter of Pisa and Alcuin of York, attracted the scholars of England and Ireland, and by decree in AD 787 established schools in every abbey in his empire.

This reduction in the power of Canterbury may have been motivated by Offa's desire to have an archbishop consecrate his son Ecgfrith of Mercia as king, since it is possible Jaenberht refused to perform the ceremony, which took place in 787.

Its population had grown to 92, 000 by 1862 and to 125, 787 by 1900.

Guidelines issued by Guinness World Records in March 2007 state that a human powered circumnavigation must travel a minimum of 36, 787. 559 km ( the distance of the Tropic of Cancer ), cross the Equator, and each leg must commence at the exact point where the last finished off.

B. L. van der Waerden has interpreted the planetary models developed by Aryabhata ( 476 – 550 CE ), an Indian astronomer, and Albumasar ( 787 – 886 CE ), a Persian astronomer, to be heliocentric models but this view has been strongly disputed by others.

There were 3, 505 housing units at an average density of 1, 288. 0 per square mile ( 497. 3 / km² ), of which 2, 787 ( 83. 6 %) were owner-occupied, and 548 ( 16. 4 %) were occupied by renters.

The population increased by 4, 313 (+ 14. 8 %) from the 29, 159 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 3, 372 (+ 13. 1 %) from the 25, 787 counted in the 1990 Census.

These openings led to interest by developers to build more housing options within the town, which offers quick access to Troy and, subsequently, Interstate 787 and the greater Capital District.