THE GREAT SCHISM

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The split

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The Roman Catholic ruler was the pope
And the Eastern Orthodox Church leader patriarch was appointed by the emperor.

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The pope ruled the Catholic Church
The Emperor ruled the Eastern Orthodox Church
In the west, Charlemagne was the holy roman emperor
In the east, Empress Irene ruled.

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• In the Roman catholic church, icons were used
• The Roman Catholics were iconophiles
• The eastern orthodox church disliked icons
• The eastern orthodox church destroyed the icons
• But they eventually agreed to just use 2D images.

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In the Eastern Orthodox Church, they celebrated mass in the local language or in Greek.
In the Roman Catholic Church, they used Latin.

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