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3 days ago · The Photian schism. The end of iconoclasm (843) left a legacy of faction. Ignatius, patriarch of Constantinople intermittently from 847 to 877, was exiled by the government in 858 and replaced by St. Photius, a scholarly layman who was head of the imperial chancery—he was elected patriarch and ordained within six days.
1 day ago · t. e. The East–West Schism, also known as the Great Schism or the Schism of 1054, is the break of communion between the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches 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.
Jun 18, 2024 · The Great Schism of 1054 resulted in the division between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches due to theological, political, and cultural differences, including disputes over church authority and practices.
6 days ago · Efforts to heal the East-West Schism. At Basel and then especially at Ferrara-Florence, there were extensive negotiations and discussions over the newly revived proposals for effecting a reunion of the Eastern Orthodox Church and Western Roman Catholicism. Earlier attempts at such a reunion—for example, at the Council of Lyon in 1274—had ...
4 days ago · The Eastern churches never had so centralized a polity as did the church in the West but developed the principle of the administrative independence, or “autocephaly,” of each national church.
Jun 20, 2024 · This practice, which resulted in a shortage of eligible heirs, eventually led to a schism in the Church of the East, creating a temporarily Catholic offshoot known as the Shimun line.
Jun 20, 2024 · St. Irenaeus once helped to save the 2nd-century Church from schism. Today, the newly declared “Doctor of Unity” is the patron saint of a group of theologians working on current problems in Orthodox-Catholic dialogue.
