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).
Date3 or 4 March 843 (council), 11 March 843 (date of celebration)
Accepted by
Previous council
Council of Constantinople of 815
Next council
Council of Constantinople (861)
Convoked byTheodora, mother of Emperor Michael III
PresidentPatriarch Methodios I of Constantinople
AttendanceThe Holy Endemic Synod of Constantinople
Topics
LocationConstantinople, Byzantium (modern-day Turkey).
Chronological list of ecumenical councils

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]

  1. ^ Davis 1987, p. 318.

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