What is the significance of the year 1050 for Eastern Orthodox Christians?

Answer 1

The year is when the Great Schism occured, separating the Catholic and Eastern Orhtodox Church.

In 325AD there were hundreds of chuches, each with its own teachings, views of Jesus and how to worship him. This was becasue of the mixing of the local faiths with the teachings of the individual apostles.

In 325, Constantine the Great saught to unite all of the churches and he did, under the Holy ROman Orthodox Church. Under the new faith, each church would be its own entity under the Orthdox faith. The largest member church was the Western Church. Others included the Coptic, Greek, Armenian, Egyptian, Antioch and Palestinian Church.

After 700 years of coperative rule, the Wester Churches split because they wanted their own supreme leader because of their vast size. So in 1056 the Roman Catholic church split from the Orthodox faith, and because the remaining members of ORthodoxy were in Eastern Europe we rtend to call them Eastern Orthodox.

Answer 2

I presume that you mean the year 1054, as I am not aware of 1056 having any significance for Orthodox Christians. The year 1054 AD is generally regarded as the final date of the split in the Universal Church, which began in the year 800 AD when Charlemange set himself up as a rival king to the Eastern Roman Emperor. The year 800 marks the beginning of the separation between the Latin West and the Orthodox East, which concluded in 1054 with the mutual excommunications by Cardinal Humbertus and Patriarch Michael Cerularius of Constantinople in the Church of Hagia Sophia.

From 1054 the Western Christians became known as Roman Catholics and the Eastern Christians became known as the Orthodox Church.

The excommunications of 1054 were later rescinded by Pope Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople in 1964, as an act of reconciliation, but the two sides remain separate to this day over unresolved theological disputes. The main points of contention are over the papal change to the Creed, by adding the 'filioque' clause, and the papal claims of supremacy over the whole church, which the Orthodox reject. The Orthodox Church accepts the Pope as an equal member of the Church, but does not accept his claims of being the supreme leader of the Church.

Answer 3

The primary event of this year with importance to Eastern Orthodox Christians was the Great Schism with the Western (i.e., Roman Catholic) Church. It should be noted, however, that this event is also dated to 1054 by other sources.

Answer 4

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Answer:It is when The Great Schism occurred, causing The Roman Catholic Church to split off The Orthodox Church.

Answer 5

The year in which you are talking about is 1054. The reason this year is important is because of the Great Schism when The Roman Catholic Church split off The Orthodox Church.