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81Crotty Schism — The Crotty Schism took place in the early 19th century, when Father Michael Crotty and his cousin, Father William Crotty, broke away from the Catholic Church to form their own church in Birr, County Offaly, Ireland. The two fathers began… …
82Photian schism — The Photian schism is a term for a controversy lasting from 863 867 between Eastern (Byzantine, later Orthodox) and Western (Roman Catholic) Christianity. This conflict was precipitated by the opposition of Roman Catholic Pope Nicholas I (r. 858… …
831054, Schism of — ▪ Christianity also called East–West Schism event that precipitated the final separation between the Eastern (Eastern Orthodoxy) Christian churches (Christianity) (led by the patriarch of Constantinople, Michael Cerularius) and the… …
84Akakian Schism — The first schism (484 519) between the churches of Rome and Constantinople (qq.v.). Akakios (q.v.), for whom the schism was named, was patriarch (q.v.) of Constantinople. He supported Zeno s Henotikon (qq.v.), the Edict of Unity, which… …
85Church Schism of 1054 — This was the last of several church schisms that began with the Akkakian Schism (q.v.) of 484 519. This schism, despite its circumstantial appearance, can be seen as a culmination of a gulf between the churches that developed since the ninth… …
86Great Schism — n. 1. the division or conflict in the Roman Catholic Church from 1378 to 1417, when there were rival popes at Avignon and Rome: also called Schism of the West 2. the separation of the Eastern Church from the Western Church, traditionally dated… …
87Acacian schism — The Acacian schism lasted thirty five years, from 484 519. It resulted from a drift in the leaders of Eastern Christianity toward Miaphysitism.In the events leading up to the Schism, Pope Felix III of Rome wrote two letters, one to Zeno and one… …
88Internationalist/Defencist Schism — Socialism …
89Great Schism — /greɪt ˈskɪzəm/ (say grayt skizuhm) noun 1. Also, Western Schism. a period of complex division within the Roman Catholic Church which began in 1378 with two popes, one in Rome and one in Avignon, and, from 1409, a third, elected at Pisa; all… …
90great Western schism — (great) Western schism The division in the Western Church from 1378 to 1417, when there were antipopes under French influence at Avignon • • • Main Entry: ↑schism …
