Council of Constantinople (843)

Council of Constantinople (843)
Late 14th-early to 15th century icon illustrating the Triumph of Orthodoxy over iconoclasm in 843. (National Icon Collection 18, British Museum).
Date	3 or 4 March 843 (council), 11 March 843 (date of celebration)
Accepted by	Eastern Orthodox Church Byzantine Rite Catholic Churches
Previous council	Council of Constantinople of 815
Next council	Council of Constantinople (861)
Convoked by	Theodora, mother of Emperor Michael III
President	Patriarch Methodios I of Constantinople
Attendance	The Holy Endemic Synod of Constantinople
Topics	Dogmatization of the proper veneration of icons Condemnation of iconoclasm and disposal of iconoclast clergymen
Location	Constantinople, Byzantium (modern-day Turkey).
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The Council of Constantinople of 843 or the Synod of Constantinople of 843 was a local council (as opposed to an ecumenical council) of Christian bishops that was convened in Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul, Turkey) in AD 843 by the Byzantine regent Theodora to confirm iconophilism in the Church. This council is still celebrated on the first Sunday of Great Lent in the Eastern Orthodox Church, as presecribed by the council. After the council which was under the presidency of the Patriarch Methodios I, the attendees met on 11 March 843 and symbolically processed from the Blachernae Church to the Church of Hagia Sophia bearing an icon of the Mother of God.^[1]