The Synod of Russian Orthodox Church made the decision to completely break off the relations with Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in response to it's process of granting autocephaly, or ...

Originally in communion with the Church of Rome, the churches of East and West were divided by the Great Schism of 1054. Off Orthodox Christians place great emphasis on worship, particularly the ...

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 ...

Francis is likely to use the occasion — the anniversary of a council before the Great Schism of 1054, which divided the church between East and West — to once again reach out to Orthodox ...