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Catholic (48.6%) Protestant (39.8%) Orthodox (11.1%) Other (0.5%) Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a center for Christian unity in Jerusalem. Christianity can be taxonomically divided into six main groups: the Church of the East, Oriental Orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, and Restorationism.
The Western Schism, also known as the Papal Schism, the Great Occidental Schism, or the Schism of 1378 ( 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 simultaneously claimed to be ...
Catholicism – broad term for the body of the Catholic faith, its theologies and doctrines, its liturgical, ethical, spiritual, and behavioral characteristics, as well as a religious people as a whole. Catholic Church – also known as the Roman Catholic Church; the world's largest Christian church, with more than 1.3 billion members.
326, November 18: Pope Sylvester I consecrates the Basilica of St. Peter built by Constantine the Great over the tomb of the Apostle. 328–373 Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, first cite of modern 27 book New Testament canon. 330 Old Church of the Holy Apostles, dedicated by Constantine.
Heresy is to reject or doubt the beliefs of the Church after having been baptised. [1] Schism means that the opposing parties have a disagreement within the establishment. Both groups have to accept that they are in schism. In the canon law of the Catholic Church, an act of schism, apostasy or heresy brings the penalty of excommunication.
e. The Council of Constance ( Latin: Concilium Constantiense; [1] German: Konzil von Konstanz) was an ecumenical council of the Catholic Church that was held from 1414 to 1418 in the Bishopric of Constance (Konstanz) in present-day Germany. The council ended the Western Schism by deposing or accepting the resignation of the remaining papal ...
Christianity. In the year before the Council of Constantinople in 381, the Trinitarian version of Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire when Emperor Theodosius I issued the Edict of Thessalonica in 380, [1] which recognized the catholic orthodoxy [a] of Nicene Christians as the Roman Empire 's state religion.
