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The East–West Schism, also known as the Great Schism or the Schism of 1054, is the break of communion between the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church since 1054. [1] A series of ecclesiastical differences and theological disputes between the Greek East and Latin West preceded the formal split that occurred in 1054.
The Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church have been in a state of official schism from one another since the East–West Schism of 1054. This schism was caused by historical and language differences, and the ensuing theological differences between the Western and Eastern churches.
A major event of the Second Vatican Council, known as Vatican II, was the issuance by Pope Paul VI and Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras of a joint expression of regret for many of the past actions that had led up to the Great Schism, expressed as the Catholic-Orthodox Joint declaration of 1965. At the same time, they lifted the mutual ...
The ‘Great Schism’ connotes the unremitting rupture of communion between the Catholic and Orthodox families. [12] Historians of the split have traditionally, following in the footsteps of Edward Gibbon , [ 13 ] recognised 1054 as the watershed of relational breakdown between the Eastern and Western spheres of the Christian World.
Some Orthodox see a continuation of Roman Catholic hostility in the establishment of the Uniate or Eastern Catholic Churches (see the sainting of Bissarion in 1950). [33] In 2004, Pope John Paul II extended a formal apology for the sacking of Constantinople in 1204; the apology was formally accepted by Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople.
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East–West Schism, Great Schism, or (Rome–Constantinople) Schism of 1054 (ongoing) The union accomplished at the Council of Florence of the Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Catholic Church Schism of the Russian Church or Raskol , the splitting of the Russian Orthodox Church into an official church and the Old Believers movements in the ...
The East-West Schism, or Great Schism, separated the Church into Western (Latin) and Eastern (Greek) branches, i.e., Western Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. It was the first major division since certain groups in the East rejected the decrees of the Council of Chalcedon (see Oriental Orthodoxy ) and was far more significant.