Schism is nothing new in the church, starting with the Great Schism of 1054, which created the divide between Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism before the Protestant Reformation fragmented ...

The most famous breakaway from the Church was the so-called Great Schism of 1054 between Eastern and Western Christianity, which has lasted almost 1,000 years. The most notable of the 20th century ...

If the Church in Ukraine succeeded in breaking ... over the centuries like a slow detonation. The Great Schism occurred in 1054. Around that same time, Mount Athos saw the arrival of Slavic ...

The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has summoned Monsignor Carlo Maria Viganò so that "he can take note of the accusations and evidence regarding the crime of schism of which he is accused".

They have met once, in Cuba in 2016 - the first meeting between a pope and a leader of the Russian Orthodox Church since the Great Schism of 1054. In an interview with Reuters last month ...