The+Great+Schism

This crisis led to the separation between the Eastern and Western churches and is referred to as the Great Schism of 1054.The view held by religious authorities in the mainly Greek-speaking Eastern regions had been that there were 5 senior leaders, or Metropolitans, in the Christian Church, one of which was the Bishop of Rome. However, the Bishop of Rome, designated as the Pope, insisted that he had greater authority than the other Metropolitans. Gradually, other differences built up until the Great Schism. The Christian Church split along written, differecial religion practice, spoken, political, and geographic lines. The split, the Great Schism of 1054, led to the development of the modern Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.
 *  The Great Schism of 1054 was the split between the Eastern and Western Christian Churches.The Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches split when Pope Leo IX and Patriarch Michael I excommunicated each other. In 1054, relations between the Greek speaking Eastern of the Byzantine empire and the Latin speaking Western traditions within the Christian Church reached a crisis.

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