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Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Collection of facts about the East-West Schism

This post is a collection of facts about the East-West Schism (1054). There are 9 facts listed below. Source: Wikipedia

• Break between Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church
• Disputes: procession of the Holy Spirit, leavened or unleavened bread, iconoclasm, coronation of Charlemagne, papal supremacy, and See of Constantinople
• Patriarch Michael I Cerularius closed Latin churches in Constantinople
• Leo IX denied Cerularius the title 'ecumenical patriarch'
• Cerularius refused and was excommunicated by Leo IX
• Massacre of the Latins in 1182
• Sack of Thessalonica in 1185
• Siege of Constantinople and Fourth Crusade in 1204
• Schism continues to present day