Great Schism

The East-West Schism, known also as the Great Schism was the event that divided Chalcedonian Christianity into Western Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. Though normally dated to 1054, when Pope Leo IX and Patriarch Michael I excommunicated each other, the East-West Schism was actually the result of an extended period of estrangement between the two Churches. The primary causes of the Schism were disputes over papal authority and the insertion of the filioque clause in the Nicene Creed. (Read more)

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• Eastern Orthodoxy | Roman Catholicism | Ecumenism
• Filioque clause | Nicene Creed

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