This latter practice, hotly denounced as idolatry during the iconoclastic controversy, was finally established as orthodox by the Second General Council of Nicaea (787), which restored the use of images. A later development, however, by which certain lights themselves came to be regarded as objects of worship and to have other lights burned before them, was condemned as idolatrous by the Synod of Noyon in 1344.
The veneration of images, which was initially condemned as idolatry during the iconoclastic controversy, was eventually accepted as orthodox by the Second General Council of Nicaea (787), and later on, a different practice involving lights was condemned as idolatrous by the Synod of Noyon in 1344.