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6th Imperial Council of Christianity, Nicaea 787 CE |
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787 |
Called by |
Empress Irene |
Presided by |
Empress Irene and Tarasios of Constantinople |
Attendance |
366 (absolutely no Catholic legates) |
Key topics |
New "heretical" religion of Catholicism
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Documents & Statements |
Only forgeries now exist. Original canons and statements lost/destroyed.
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This Imperial Christian Council was primarily convened to discuss and condemn the new "heretical" religion of Catholicism, less than 45 years old. It is falsely listed as the 7th "Ecumenical Council" -- implying that the Holy Roman Emperors were somehow on speaking terms with the Pippins and that the Pippins were on terms with their most hated enemy. |
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The entire proceedings for this event have unfortunately been lost to forgers, who now have made this critical political and religion Council about the size, colour and appreciation of religious art-- a deliberate trivialization of a most sensitive time in the history of christianity. |
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Nicaea in 787 was never Ecumenical -- an extraordinarily brazen lie given the true circumstances of history at the time. Not one single Catholic cleric was within a thousand miles of Nicaea in 787. Nor was this Council ever about "tiny religous artworks" or Icons. |
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The original Imperial documents for these proceedings were stolen from the Imperial Archives upon the conquest and destruction of Constantinople in 1096 by Roman Cult Leader Pope Urban II and taken back to Rome. The originals were reputed to still be in existence until the 14th Century. However, it is not known if these documents remain in possession at the Vatican Secret Archives. All subsequent documents published since the 12th Century have contained deliberate inclusions and falsities by the leaders of the Roman (Catholic) Cult and therefore cannot be considered authentic. |
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Background |
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This Council ruled on the use of saints' images and icons in religious devotion, declaring that whereas the veneration of images was legitimate and the intercession of saints efficacious, the veneration of icons must be carefully distinguished from the worship due God alone.
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The Iconoclast Controversy |
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It centered around the use of icons in the Church and the controversy between the iconoclasts and iconophiles. The Iconoclasts were suspicious of religious art; they demanded that the Church rid itself of such art and that it be destroyed or broken (as the term "iconoclast" implies).
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The iconophilles believed that icons served to preserve the doctrinal teachings of the Church; they considered icons to be man's dynamic way of expressing the divine through art and beauty. The Iconoclast controversy was a form of Monophysitism: distrust and downgrading of the human side.
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The Council's Proclamation |
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We define that the holy icons, whether in color, mosaic, or some other material, should be exhibited in the holy churches of God, on the sacred vessels and liturgical vestments, on the walls, furnishings, and in houses and along the roads, namely the icons of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, that of our Lady the Theotokos, those of the venerable angels and those of all saintly people. Whenever these representations are contemplated, they will cause those who look at them to commemorate and love their prototype. We define also that they should be kissed and that they are an object of veneration and honor (Τιμιτηκή Προσκίνησης), but not of real worship (λατρεία - latreia), which is reserved for Him Who is the subject of our faith and is proper for the divine nature only. ..Rendered image of an icon is in effect transmitted to the prototype; he who venerates the icon, venerated in it the reality for which it stands.
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