The Unbroken Line
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From Creation through the Apostles to the present, one faith has been kept whole. Toggle the layers to follow a single thread or overlay several — and see exactly where others departed.
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1054 · Constantinople & Rome
The Great Schism
Church History
Long-growing estrangement — over papal claims to universal jurisdiction and the unilateral addition of the Filioque to the Creed — ruptured communion in 1054, made decisive by the sack of Constantinople (1204) and the failed reunion councils.
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