| They chose for the meeting a part of the sea-shore, in the Malian gulf, near Nicaea. |
| Writing before the council of Nicaea, he speaks of Christ as a secondary deity. |
| This pattern continued in the early ecumenical councils, especially Nicaea. |
| Pope Adrian I, who encouraged Western recognition of the iconodulic Council of Nicaea, also referred to the perspicuity of the icons. |
| The second, convened at Nicaea in 787, formally revived the adoration of images and reunited the Eastern church with that of Rome. |
| The decision in favour of the Athanasian view at Nicaea did not immediately end the controversy. |
