Pope Stephen III
The bishops who had been consecrated by Constantine seem to have been on the whole reconciled by the Pope. Pope Stephen III, however, never returned priests or deacons to the rank to which the antipope Constantine had raised them. In general, the sacraments administered by Constantine, apart from Baptism and Confirmation, were repeated under Stephen. The iconoclast portion of the Council was meant to clearly align Rome with Francia, and to signal to the Franks that the Byzantines were heretics. Significantly, the Roman dating of the Council was no longer by the years of the Byzantine Emperors, and thus apparently indicating that the Council was not recognising imperial sovereignty whilst the Church was in schism.