The chapter discusses the end of the Iconoclast era of Byzantine history after the death of Emperor Theophilus on 20 January 842, how his wife, the Empress Theodora, willing to restore the veneration of icons, first held counsel with her associates in the state leadership—the logothete Theoctistus, Sergius Nicetiates and her brothers Bardas and Petronas, and then convened the Council in Constantinople in early March 843, who participated at the Council and what decisions were made, how the monk Methodius was elected new patriarch, as a candidate of the provincial monks and the empress’ favourite, as well as the spontaneous gathering of the people in front of St. Sophia to perform a procession that was the forerunner of the later Procession of Orthodoxy.