The divide remains today although there have been attempts to reconcile the two churches. The Great Schism is also referred to at the East-West Schism and although the date given for the schism is , there had been a lot of tension between the two sides for a long time before this date.
The schism did not occur just because of religious differences. Political and social influences also had an effect. By the beginning of the sixth century, the Western Roman Empire was being overrun by the barbarians while the Eastern Roman Empire continued to do well. The number of people who spoke both languages decreased as did communication between the two halves. There was a lot of tension between the two halves of the Church even before the Great Schism occurred.
One of the first little schisms occurred between the years and when the Church split over Arianism the belief that Jesus was not equal to God and therefore not divine. Another problem arose in when the Byzantine Emperor, Arcadius, refused to accept John Chrysostom as the Patriarch of Constantinople.
Chrysostom was backed by the Roman Pope and since the eastern patriarchs agreed with the Byzantine Emperor and refused to accept Chrysostom as legitimate, the Pope broke off communication with the eastern part of the Church. This schism was not repaired until when the eastern patriarchs finally agreed that Chrysostom was a legitimate patriarch. Some viewed Jesus as having two natures human and divine while others thought Jesus was only divine. The main purpose of the papal legation was to seek help from the Byzantine emperor in view of the Norman conquest of southern Italy, and to deal with recent attacks by Leo of Ohrid against the use of unleavened bread and other Western customs, attacks that had the support of Cerularius.
Historian Axel Bayer contends that the legation was sent in response to two letters, one from the emperor seeking assistance in arranging a common military campaign by the Eastern and Western Empires against the Normans, and the other from Cerularius. On the refusal of Cerularius to accept the demand, the leader of the legation, Cardinal Humbert of Silva Candida, excommunicated him, and in return Cerularius excommunicated Humbert and the other legates.
This was only the first act in a centuries-long process that eventually became a complete schism. The gradual separation of the last several centuries culminated in a formal declaration of institutional separation between east, into the Orthodox Church now Eastern Orthodox Church , and west, into the Catholic Church now Roman Catholic Church.
This was known as the East-West Schism. The East-West Schism. The church split along doctrinal, theological, linguistic, political, and geographical lines, and the fundamental breach has never been healed, with each side sometimes accusing the other of having fallen into heresy and of having initiated the division.
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The Great Schism of — resulted from the removal of the papacy from Italy to France in Feuds among the Italian cardinals and their allies among the Italian nobility led to Pope Clement V —14 moving the papal residence from Rome to Avignon in southern France.
French interests came to dominate papal policy and the popes, notorious for their luxurious way of life, commanded scant respect. The period of popes and rival antipopes lasted until the Council of Constance elected Pope Martin V of the Roman party and deposed his French rival. The division of the papacy discredited the Church and was criticized by those demanding reform, notably Wyclif.
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