Examples of Great Schism in the following topics:
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- The centuries-long gradual religious separation between the Eastern and Western Roman Empires culminated in the institutional separation known as the East-West Schism.
- The East–West Schism, also called the Great Schism and the Schism of 1054, was the break of communion between what are now the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic churches, which has lasted since the 11th century.
- This was only the first act in a centuries-long process that eventually became a complete schism.
- This was known as the East-West Schism.
- The religious distribution after the East-West Schism between the churches of the Byzantine Empire and the Holy Roman Empire in 1054 CE.
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- The Fourth Crusade is considered to be one of the final acts in the Great Schism between the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church, and a key turning point in the decline of the Byzantine Empire and Christianity in the Near East.
- Andrew II of Hungary waged the Bosnian Crusade against the Bosnian church, which was theologically Catholic but in long-term schism with the Roman Catholic Church.
- The collapse of the papacy's moral authority and the rise of nationalism rang the death knell for crusading, ultimately leading to the Avignon Papacy and the Western Schism.
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- To the east of Europe lay the Byzantine Empire, composed of Christians who had long followed a separate Orthodox rite; the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches had been in schism since 1054.
- Urban responded favorably, perhaps hoping to heal the Great Schism of forty years earlier, and to reunite the Church under papal primacy by helping the eastern churches in their time of need.
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- The Protestant Reformation was the schism within Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther, John Calvin, and other early Protestants.
- Following the breakdown of monastic institutions and scholasticism in late medieval Europe, accentuated by the Avignon Papacy, the Papal Schism, and the failure of the Conciliar movement, the sixteenth century saw a great cultural debate about religious reforms and later fundamental religious values.
- A revolt against Aristotelian logic, it placed great emphasis on reforming individuals through eloquence as opposed to reason.
- The European Renaissance laid the foundation for the Northern humanists in its reinforcement of the traditional use of Latin as the great unifying language of European culture.
- The great rise of the burghers (merchant class), the desire to run their new businesses free of institutional barriers or outmoded cultural practices, contributed to the appeal of humanist individualism.
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- However, the direct male blood line of the Romanov
Dynasty ended when Elizabeth of Russia died in 1762, and Peter III, followed by Catherine the Great, were placed in power, both
German-born royalty.
- Under Alexis I’s
rule, the Orthodox Church also convened the Great Moscow Synod, which
created new customs and traditions.
- This historic moment created a
schism between what are termed Old Believers (those attached to the
previous hierarchy and traditions of the Church) and the new Church
traditions.
- At
the death of Alexis I in 1676, a dynastic dispute erupted between the
children of his first wife, namely Fyodor
III, Sofia
Alexeyevna, Ivan
V, and the son of his second wife, Peter Alexeyevich (later Peter the Great).
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- The Western Schism, or Papal Schism, was a split within the Roman Catholic Church that lasted from 1378 to 1417.
- Driven by politics rather than any theological disagreement, the schism was ended by the Council of Constance (1414–1418).
- Efforts were made to end the schism through force or diplomacy.
- The council elected Pope Martin V in 1417, essentially ending the schism.
- Explain the events that led to the Western Schism, as well as its eventual resolution
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- The late Middle Ages was a period of political intrigue surrounding the Papacy, culminating in the Western Schism, in which three men simultaneously claimed to be true Bishop of Rome.
- While the schism was resolved by the Council of Constance (1414), a resulting reform movement known as Conciliarism sought to limit the power of the pope.
- On the one hand, it was a time of great artistic patronage and architectural magnificence, where the Church pardoned and even sponsored such artists as Michelangelo, Brunelleschi, Bramante, Raphael, Fra Angelico, Donatello, and da Vinci.
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- Decisions made at the Council of Nicea (325) about the divinity of Christ led to a schism; the new religion, Arianism, flourished outside the Roman Empire.
- This led to further schisms.
- The second great phase in the process of papal supremacy's rise to prominence extended from the mid-11th to the mid-13th century.
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- Aksum is the first verifiable kingdom of great power to rise in the region.
- Later, as the Crusades were dying out in the early fourteenth century, the Ethiopian King Wedem Ar'ad dispatched a thirty-man mission to Europe, where they traveled to Rome to meet the Pope and then, since the Medieval Papacy was in schism, they traveled to Avignon to meet the Antipope.
- The power lay ever more openly in the hands of the great nobles and military commanders.
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- According to Munro-Hay these wars may have been Aksum's swan-song as a great power, with an overall weakening of Aksumite authority and over-expenditure in money and manpower.
- Since the schism with orthodoxy following the Council of Chalcedon (451), it has been an important Miaphysite church, and its scriptures and liturgy continue to be in Ge'ez.