Throughout its history the Christian church has undergone two major splits:
The Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church
The Protestant Reformation.
The Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Please specify which split you are referring to.
They formally split the Christian Church apart They created two completely separate churches.
The revolt of Martin Luther against abuses and teachings within the Roman Catholic Church. Specifically, the event where he nailed his so-called '95 theses' to the doors of The All Saints'Church in Wittemberg, Germany in 1517 AD.
The first split between the Christian church in the East and the Christian church in the West probably took place during the time of the Byzantine Empire. Some of the issues that caused this split were that the Eastern emperor viewed himself as head of the church as well as ruler of state, and the Pope in the West viewed HIMSELF as head of the church, and a varying opinion over idols. The Westerners had no problem worshipping/praying to idols, because many of them couldn't read, but the Easterners felt that it was wrong to worship an image. Thus, the church split into the Roman Catholics and the Greek Orthodox.
Short answer: it was one of the causes of the split between the western and eastern Christian churches. The result of the split (schism) is the Catholic church (western) and Orthodox church (eastern).
A separatist is someone who advocates a split (or actually executes it) from an established formal entity, such as a State or a Church.
An ever growing intolerance to the churches views on usury and masterbation.
because they all liked to Eat Carls J.R. (;
The Churches that came out of the Great Schism of 1054 both claimed to be the original Christian Church. One was the Roman Catholic Church and the other was the Orthodox Church, although this is a more general term for a group of Churches with more than one Patriarch.