id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4400 Constantine V - Wikipedia .html text/html 5891 654 64 Constantine was born in Constantinople, the son and successor of Emperor Leo III and his wife Maria. Like his father Leo III, Constantine supported iconoclasm, which was a theological movement that rejected the veneration of religious images and sought to destroy those in existence. As Christian theology holds that Christ is God, He also cannot be represented in an image.[16] The Emperor was personally active in the theological debate; evidence exists for him composing thirteen treatises, two of which survive in fragmentary form.[17] He also presented his religious views at meetings organised throughout the empire, sending representatives to argue his case.[18] In February 754, Constantine convened a synod at Hieria, which was attended entirely by iconoclast bishops. Byzantine and Bulgarian campaigns during the reign of Constantine (741–775) All surviving contemporary and later Byzantine histories covering the reign of Constantine were written by iconodules. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4400.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4400.txt