The Triumph of Orthodoxy - Patriarch Pavle

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Today, brothers and sisters, we are celebrating the first Sunday of the holy and honorable Great Lent, which is known as the Sunday of Orthodoxy. In the ninth century, in 852, when Orthodoxy defeated Iconoclasm, it was decided that this Sunday would be the feast of the Triumph of Orthodoxy.

You know, there were kings, and bishops, and other people who believed that icons were not befitting of the Orthodox Church. Perhaps these bishops and kings wanted to remove the icons from the Church to easily attract Muslims, who had no icons, and Jews to Christianity.