In 1054 an important event happened which divide the Christianity and led the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Romean Catholic Church in collision for matters that had to do with doctrines and disciplinary such as:
· The worship of the icons that the Rome defended and struggled the iconoclasts.
· The Papal Primacy in which the Eastern Orthodox Church was opposite.
· The problem of the clerical celibacy.
· The use of the unleavened bread in the Eucharist from the Catholics and the leavened from the Orthodox.
There were many disagreements between the Rome and the Constantinople and the Rome accused the Constantinople for changing the balances. The first signs of the Schism appeared the 9th century upon Bishop Photious but the final happened on 1054 upon Bishop Michael Ceroularious, who was excommunicated from a committee of Romeans priests that had been sent from Pope Leo IX in purpose to impose the Papal Primacy. The people rose, the priest returned to Rome and Ceroylarious excommunicated the Pope.
Also Rome wanted her Church to have more power and more prestige from the patriarchates of Constantinoples, Jurisalims, Alexandrias, and Antiochias something that was not acceptable.
Contrary to Orthodox belief where the Father alone is the origin of both the Son and the Holy Spirit which is why the Orthodox would not accept this change.
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