During this initial period, concern on both sides seems to have had little to do with theology and more with practical evidence and effects. There was initially no church council, and no prominent patriarchs or bishops called for the removal or destruction of icons. In the process of destroying or obscuring images, Leo is said to have ""confiscated valuable church plate, altar cloths, and reliquaries decorated with religious figures"", but he took no severe action against the former patriarch or iconophile bishops.