(7th General Council, 787)

This council condemned the whole iconoclastic movement and backed the position held by John of Damascus.

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A synod called early in 843 deposed John Grammaticus, elected Methodius as patriarch, condemned all the iconoclasts and confirmed the rulings of the Seventh General Council at Nicea in 787, backing the position presented by John of Damascus. Orthodox churches today still celebrate the first Sunday in Lent each year as the Feast of Orthodoxy, to commemorate the triumph of icons.

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Monsour, born in Damascus, was the greatest theologian of the eighth century. He is recognized today by the Orthodox churches as the last of the great teachers of the early church, the so-called 'Fathers'. John explained that an image was never of the same substance as its original, but merely imitated it. "To deny that any true icon could depict Christ was, in effect, to deny the possibility of the Incarnation."

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