The Synod of Russian Orthodox Church made the decision to completely break off the relations with Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in response to it's process of granting autocephaly, or ...

Originally in communion with the Church of Rome, the churches of East and West were divided by the Great Schism of 1054. Off Orthodox Christians place great emphasis on worship, particularly the ...

The Great Schism divided Western Christianity between 1378 and 1417. Two popes and their courts occupied the see of St. Peter, one in Rome, and one in Avignon. Traditionally, this event has received ...

Francis is likely to use the occasion — the anniversary of a council before the Great Schism of 1054, which divided the ...

The most famous breakaway from the Church was the so-called Great Schism of 1054 between Eastern and Western Christianity, which has lasted almost 1,000 years. The most notable of the 20th century ...

In this essay we abstract altogether from such diversities and degrees of privation, and confine ourselves to the consideration of the results of factual loss of external communion with the Catholica.