When and how did the Great Schism begin?

Answer 1

The "Eastern Schism" (as it is known in the Roman Catholic Church) or "Great Schism" (as it is known in the Orthodox Church) can be dated to 1054, when Cardinal Humbert and two papal legates delivered a bull of excommunication against Patriarch Caerularius of Constantinople (as well as Leo of Achrida and their adherents); other sources give the date of the schism as 1056. However, things are not really that simple. There were fractures before 1054 between Eastern and Western Christianity, and there were temporary reconciliations afterwards. For a more thorough coverage of the schism, from both the Orthodox and Roman Catholic viewpoints, see the first two links below. There was also a Western Schism (referenced in the previous answers listed here) which lasted from 1378 to 1417, but this was a division within the Roman Catholic Church and had nothing to do with Eastern Orthodoxy. See the other link below for more information on this event. Answer The Western Schism or Great Schism lasted from A.D. 1378 until A.D.1417 and began when the Roman mobs forced the College of Cardinals to elect an Italian as a pope. The cardinals declared the election invalid saying that they had voted under a lot of pressure. Later they elected a second Italian pope who refused to resign and the church faced the problem of being led by two popes. This problem became known as the Great Schism.

Answer This happened soon after the Great Schism of 1054 AD. 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 in Constantinople. 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 I of Constantinople in the Church of Hagia Sophia. From 1054 onwards, the Western Christians became known as Roman Catholics and the Eastern Christians became known as the Orthodox Church. first of all, it is when did the great schism begin and i dont know

Answer2: As time passed, efforts were made to translate the Bible into the languages that people commonly spoke. Few could read the Bible in the Hebrew or Greek in which it was written. Almost 300 years before Jesus lived on earth, work began on translating the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek. That translation is known as the Greek Septuagint. Some 700 years later, Jerome produced a famous translation known as the Vulgate. This was a rendering of the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures into Latin, which was the common tongue of the Roman Empire of that time.

Later, Latin began to fade as a common language. Only the well-educated maintained familiarity with Latin, and the Catholic Church resisted efforts to translate the Bible into other languages. Religious leaders argued that Hebrew, Greek, and Latin were the only suitable Bible languages.

In the ninth century C.E., Methodius and Cyril, Thessalonian missionaries acting on behalf of the Eastern Church in Byzantium, promoted the use of Slavic as a church language. Their goal was to enable the Slavic peoples of Eastern Europe, who understood neither Greek nor Latin, to learn about God in their own language.

These missionaries, however, met with fierce opposition from German priests, who sought to impose Latin as a defense against the expanding influence of Byzantine Christianity. Clearly, politics were more important to them than people's religious education. Increasing tensions between the Western and Eastern branches of Christendom led to the division between Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy in 1054.

Answer 2

In 1309, the pope moved to a region near France, giving France considerable influence on the pope. The next pope moved back to Italy. The Great Schism began in 1378 when the King of France appointed a different pope than the Italian one. For 68 years, the Great Schism led to Europe having two popes instead of one.

Answer2: As time passed, efforts were made to translate the Bible into the languages that people commonly spoke. Few could read The Bible in the Hebrew or Greek in which it was written. Almost 300 years before Jesus lived on earth, work began on translating the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek. That translation is known as the Greek Septuagint. Some 700 years later, Jerome produced a famous translation known as the Vulgate. This was a rendering of the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures into Latin, which was the common tongue of the Roman Empire of that time.

Later, Latin began to fade as a common language. Only the well-educated maintained familiarity with Latin, and the Catholic Church resisted efforts to translate the Bible into other languages. Religious leaders argued that Hebrew, Greek, and Latin were the only suitable Bible languages.

In the ninth century C.E., Methodius and Cyril, Thessalonian missionaries acting on behalf of the Eastern Church in Byzantium, promoted the use of Slavic as a church language. Their goal was to enable the Slavic peoples of Eastern Europe, who understood neither Greek nor Latin, to learn about God in their own language.

These missionaries, however, met with fierce opposition from German priests, who sought to impose Latin as a defense against the expanding influence of Byzantine Christianity. Clearly, politics were more important to them than people's religious education. Increasing tensions between the Western and Eastern branches of Christendom led to the division between Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy in 1054.

Answer 3

Catholic AnswerThe Great Schism was the Schism that took place in the West when the Pope moved from Rome and there were two or three claimants to the Papal throne at once. If you are referring to the Eastern Schism (the Schism of the Orthodox) that is a different matter. I believe that the Great Schism had the worst effect as the resulting weakening of the papacy was one of the contributing factors to the protestant upheaval a century later.

from A Catholic Dictionary, edited by Donald Attwater, Second edition, revised 1957

The Great Schism, otherwise know as the Schism of the West was not strictly a schism at all but a conflict between the two parties within the Church each claiming to support the true pope. Three months after the election of Urban VI, in 1378, the fifteen electing cardinals declared that they had appointed him only as a temporary vicar and that in any case the election was invalid as made under fear of violence from the Roman mob. Urban retorted by naming twenty-eight new cardinals, and the others at once proceeded to elect Cardinal Robert of Geneva as Pope Clement VII, who went to reside at Avignon. The quarrel was in its origin not a theological or religious one, but was caused by the ambition and jealousy of French influence, which was supported to some extent for political reasons by Spain, Naples, Provence, and Scotland; England, Germany, Scandinavia, Wales, Ireland, Portugal, Flanders and Hungary stood by what they believe to be the true pope at Rome. The Church was torn from top to bottom by the schism, both sides in good faith (it was impossible to know to whom allegiance was due), which lasted with its two lines of popes (and at one time three) till the election of Martin V in 1417. It is now regarded as practically certain that the Urbanist popes were the true ones and their names are included in semi-official lists; moreover, the ordinal numbers of the Clementine claimants (who, however, are not called anti-popes,) were adopted by subsequent popes of the same name.

Catholic AnswerThe Great Schism, today, most commonly refers to the division of the Church between Byzantine East and Latin West, symbolically dated in 1054, but actually crystallized in 1204 when the Latins sacked Constantinople.

In older history texts, the term Great Schism was used to refer to the multiple papacies in the decades following the Avignon papacy. There is no question, however, that the schism of East and West is much "greater" - having a more profound impact, even to this day - than the political posturing of papal claimants in the 14th century

Answer 4

In the 11th century, in the year 1054 AD.