 In the fifth century it took three suffragans from the jurisdiction of Nicomedia, and later six.In 787 a second Ecumenical Council (the Seventh) was held there, ending the first period of Byzantine Iconoclasm.In the "Notitiae Episcopatuum" from the 8th to the 15th centuries, Nicaea steadily occupies the eighth place in the metropolitan sees subject to the Patriarchate of Constantinople.