Later in the same century, the popes became involved in the Quartodeciman controversy, in which the Bishop Polycarp of Smyrna visited Pope Anicetus around 155 AD, and they argued over the divergence in customs. The meeting was ineffective and ended peacefully, the difference became in fact an ecclesiastical controversy when Pope Victor I attempted to declare the practice of excommunicating all who followed Nisan 14 (considered by him heresy). However, the excommunication of Asians by Victor was revoked and the two sides reconciled as a result of the interventions of other bishops.
