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  1. v. t. e. In Christianity, a schism occurs when a single religious body divides and becomes two separate religious bodies. The split can be violent or nonviolent but results in at least one of the two newly created bodies considering itself distinct from the other. This article covers schisms in Christianity. In the early Christian church, the ...

  2. 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]

  3. The Western Schism, also known as the Papal Schism, the Great Occidental Schism, the Schism of 1378, or the Great Schism[1] (Latin: Magnum schisma occidentale, Ecclesiae occidentalis schisma), was a split within the Roman Catholic Church lasting from 20 September 1378 to 11 November 1417, in which bishops residing in Rome and Avignon ...

  4. The East-West Schism (sometimes also called Great Schism or the Schism of 1054) describes how Christianity split into two big branches called denominations in the Middle Ages. The Western part became the Roman Catholic Church. The Eastern part became the Eastern Orthodox Church.

  5. Schism is, in Christianity, a break in the unity of the church. The most significant medieval schism was the East-West Schism of 1054 that divided Christendom into Western (Roman Catholic) and Eastern (Orthodox) branches.

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  6. Jul 31, 2019 · The Great Schism of 1054 marked the split of Christianity and established the separation between the Orthodox Churches in the East and the Roman Catholic Church in the West. Start Date: For centuries, tension increased between the two branches until they finally boiled over on July 16, 1054.

  7. East-West Schism, event that precipitated the final separation between the Eastern Christian churches and the Western church. The mutual excommunications by the pope and the patriarch in 1054 became a watershed in church history.

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