4th July » A SN 1054 supernova is seen by Song Dynasty Chinese, Arab and possibly Indigenous Peoples of the Americas Amerindian observers near the star Zeta Taurus (constellation) Tauri.
They lived apart from, and did not follow the practices of the pagans. Nonetheless, the various breakaway congregations all maintained tolerant, brotherly relations as people with more Today these elements of church history are largely unknown among the people of either communion, as the issues of division are no longer explicitly taught in their respective congregations. There is another irony found in this whole ecumenical mess. This Chalcedonian schism was an earlier, lessor schism, which helped set the table for the Great Schism which would come later.
The East and West had remained in a more or less respectful relationship, tactfully smoothing over their differences. There were a series of persecutions, first by the Roman and later by the Byzantine empires. The second in 680 AD over the issue of Monothelitism. This council also affirmed the dogma of papal infallibility, declaring that the infallibility of the Christian community extends to the pope himself, when he defines a doctrine concerning faith or morals to be held by the whole Church.
These men were acting more like a group of vultures ripping at the bones of a carcass, metaphorically speaking in a strictly spiritual sense. Certain liturgical practices in the West that the East believe represent illegitimate innovation such as the use of unleavened bread for the Eucharist. The theology accepted by the Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, and Reformed churches, is that Christ remains in two distinct natures, yet these two natures come together within his one hypostasis (substance). Shame on y'all. The greatest schism in church history occurred between the church of Constantinople and the church of Rome.
From this point on, it seems the Roman church should no longer have been referring to itself as "Catholic," or "Not counting the break with Judaism, it was the first major break the devil's laughter still echoes through the lofty ceilings of Christendom In addition to those listed above, there are many more issues that separate the two primary confessions of the Christian church. Some are of the opinion that monothelitism was at one time held by the Maronites, but the Maronite community, for the most part, dispute this, stating that they have never been out of communion with the Roman Catholic Church. It started when the Greek churches in southern Italy were ordered to either close or conform to Latin practices. The insertion of the filioque clause in the Latin version, in brackets, was considered a doctrinal betrayal by the Eastern church (see - At the 879 AD Council of Constantinople the Eastern Orthodox Church anathematized the "filioque" phrase as a novelty and augmentation of the Creed, and spoke of it as a heresy. The origin of the practice seems to have followed the influx of pagan converts into the church after the First Council of Nicaea (325 AD).
. The Messiah has the last word, not the Bishop of Rome.