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 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 ...

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 ...