SECOND COUNCIL OF NICAEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Second Council of Nicaea mean? 

• SECOND COUNCIL OF NICAEA (noun)
  The noun SECOND COUNCIL OF NICAEA has 1 sense:

1. the seventh ecumenical council in 787 which refuted iconoclasm and regulated the veneration of holy images

  Familiarity information: SECOND COUNCIL OF NICAEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SECOND COUNCIL OF NICAEA (noun)

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Meaning:

The seventh ecumenical council in 787 which refuted iconoclasm and regulated the veneration of holy images

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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Nicaea; Second Council of Nicaea

Hypernyms ("Second Council of Nicaea" is a kind of...):

ecumenical council ((early Christian church) one of seven gatherings of bishops from around the known world under the presidency of the Pope to regulate matters of faith and morals and discipline)