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Great Schism
The term
Great
Schism
refers to either of two splits in the history of
Christianity
:
Most commonly, it refers to the great
East-West Schism
, the event that separated
Eastern Orthodoxy
and Western
Roman Catholicism
in the
eleventh century
(
1054
).
In the second schism within the
Catholic Church
, the
Western Schism
in the
fourteenth century
(
1378
), three (claimant)
popes
were elected at the same time.
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