Leon, metropolitan of Chalcedon, attacked Alexios I more shamefully, and in the discussions which followed asserted that holy images are worshipped by the faithful, not just treated with reverence, thus adding non-orthodox doctrines to more reasonable views. Support by disaffected officials made him behave more and more insolently towards Alexios, who encouraged him to change his views on icon-worship, promising also to replace the confiscated icons with more glorious images, with other reparations. Leon was intransigent while gaining a following through incorruptibility. He was deposed from his see and exiled to Sozopolis (in Pontos). Alexios made special provision for his comfort there