Episode Synopsis "About the Great Schism"

  The Great schism The Great Schism of 1054 became the split throughout the Eastern and Western Churches. In the year 1054 the relations between the Greek speaking Eastern of the Byzantine empire and the latin speaking Western traditions within the Christian Church reached a terminal crisis. This crisis led to the beginning of the separation between the Eastern and the Western Churches and it later became referred to as the Great Schism of 1054. The Great Schism of 1054 split led to the development of the modern Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. Most of the causes of the Great Schism started from who should led the Christian Church and The way in which the Trinity was to be understood. Most of the Christians in the West at that time had believed that the pope should be the leader of the Christian church. This was because he was the successor to St Peter. The Christians in the East did not agree with this. They could not accept that only one person could have the authority to decide the Church matters. This then later lead to an argument the Pope and the Patriarch then the two centres were torn apart and separated. 

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