Quiz: Great Lent

  • 1. On the Week of the Triumph of Orthodoxy the victory over all the heresies that distorted the Orthodox Christian doctrine at different times is celebrated. What historical event was the reason for the establishing of this ancient feast?




    Correct answer: №4
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    Comment:

    The Council of Constantinople in 843 was gathered by the widow of the last Byzantine iconoclastic emperor Theophilus, Empress Theodora, to restore icon veneration in the Orthodox Church of the East.

    At the Second Ecumenical Council of 381, the Creed was finally formulated. At the Council of Chalcedon in 451 the oros on the two natures of Christ was adopted, refuting the heresies of the Monophysites and Nestorians. At the Seventh Ecumenical Council of 787, in response to the iconoclasts, the theological grounding of iconoclasm was approved.

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