GK
WORLD HISTORY
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The treatment of heretics
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the location of the churches
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the language used in the church services
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who was the head of the Church
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Detailed explanation-1: -Rome believed that the pope-the religious leader of the western church-should have authority over the patriarch-the religious authority of the eastern church. Constantinople disagreed.
Detailed explanation-2: -Riots broke out between the followers of the pope of Rome and the patriarch of Constantinople. Christianity split between the Roman Catholic Church in the West and the Eastern Orthodox Church in the East.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1054, Pope Leo IX excommunicated the patriarch of Constantinople, an occasion that would go down in history as the beginning of the “Great Schism” between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.
Detailed explanation-4: -His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew is the 270th successor to the Apostle Andrew and spiritual leader of 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide.