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- 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 the true pope, and were eventually joined by a third line of Pisan claimants in 1409.
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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 the ...
The Western Schism was a period in the history of the Roman Catholic Church when there were two, and later three, rival popes, each with his own following, his own Sacred College of Cardinals, and his own administrative offices. The schism ran from 1378 to 1417.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Schism, WESTERN.—This schism of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries differs in all points from the Eastern Schism. The latter was a real revolt against the supreme authority of the Church , fomented by the ambition of the patriarchs of Constantinople , favored by the Greek emperors, supported by the Byzantine clergy and people, and lasting ...
In 1378, for the first time in history, the same college of cardinals elected two Roman Catholic popes in two cities just months apart. This papal conflict is known as the Western Great Schism.
While it is commonly accepted that the separation of Rome and Constantinople into two Christian Churches was the result of centuries of conflict, the event became known as the Great Schism of 1054. The schism, which reflected numerous long-standing tensions between the eastern and western Roman empire, may have been inevitable.
The Western Schism was only a temporary misunderstanding, even though it compelled the Church for forty years to seek its true head; it was fed by politics and passions, and was terminated by the assembling of the councils of Pisa and Constance.
WESTERN SCHISM. The period (1378 – 1417) in which Western Christendom was divided between two, and later three, papal obediences, and which was brought to an end by the Council of constance. Origins. The death of gregory xi on March 27, 1378, in Rome made it necessary to proceed forthwith to the election of a new pontiff.
