East–West Schism
East–West SchismThe schism between the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Western (or Roman) Church, which became definitive in the year 1054 . Tension between the two Churches dated back at least to the division of the Roman empire into an Eastern and a Western part, and the transferral of the capital city from Rome to Constantinople in the 4th century. An increasingly different mental outlook between the two Churches resulted from the occupation of the West by formerly barbarian invaders, while the East remained the heirs of the classical world. This was exacerbated when the popes turned for support to the Holy Roman Empire in the West rather than to the Byzantine empire in the East, especially from the time of Charlemagne onwards. There were also doctrinal...
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