| The Nicaea ruling contains one other provision that is extremely important for the Orthodox churches. |
| The congress dealt primarily with the pastoral problem that abandoning the Nicaea rule would lead to divisions. |
| Pope Adrian I, who encouraged Western recognition of the iconodulic Council of Nicaea, also referred to the perspicuity of the icons. |
| In 381, the Council of Constantinople reaffirmed the credo of Nicaea and condemned the semi-Arians, the homoiousians. |
| The second, convened at Nicaea in 787, formally revived the adoration of images and reunited the Eastern church with that of Rome. |
| This pattern continued in the early ecumenical councils, especially Nicaea. |
