Leo's Iconoclastic Attitude

Leo's syrian heritage may have allowed him to become more exposed to monophacitism, which is a type of christianity that insists that jesus is wholly divine. Leo attempted to transfer italian lands to the sea of constantinople, but the people of italy were not particularly willing to change the nature of their worship. Such was the ferocity of leo's iconoclastic approach that anybody found to be worshipping icons of saints were considered to be worshippers idols. And so a division would emerge between the last two remaining christian patriarchs of the original pentarchy. Rome would continue to use icons, irrespective of constant inople stants.