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  • The next great schism which divided Christendom was that which is known as the Photian schism, and led to the separatist existence of that vast body of Christians which has come to be called "the orthodox Church".

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

  • What is known as the Photian schism is the divergence between the churches of Constantinople and Rome, which became critical during the pontificate of Nicolas I. [Sidenote: The Photian schism.]

    The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 William Holden Hutton 1895

  • In his work The Photian Schism, Francis Dvornik a Jesuit—ML quotes the letter which Pope John VIII sent to Patriarch Photios wherein he recognizes Photios as Patriarch and the Constantinopolitan synod of 879-80 as a legitimate ecumenical council rescinding the synod of 869-70.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Mike L 2007

  • In his work The Photian Schism, Francis Dvornik a Jesuit—ML quotes the letter which Pope John VIII sent to Patriarch Photios wherein he recognizes Photios as Patriarch and the Constantinopolitan synod of 879-80 as a legitimate ecumenical council rescinding the synod of 869-70.

    The filioque V: replies to objections Mike L 2007

  • It is plain that these Fathers would have rejected no less firmly than the Latins the later Photian heresy that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father alone.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

  • Probably, when the Photian schism was first effected it seemed to the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

  • Bulgaria fell unavoidably within the range of the Photian schism, and so, from the end of the ninth century, the diocese of Achrida was lost to Western and papal influences.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

  • Empire before the Photian schism, or as a Christian of the Byzantine

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • A "Notitia episcopatuum" of Antioch in the sixth century mentions Samosata as an autocephalous metropolis ( "Echos d'Orient", X, 144); at the Photian

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • Unlike the Nestorians and the Monophysites (whom the Orthodox regard as heretics just as much as do the Catholics), the Photian schism commenced nearly nine centuries ago by Michael Cærularius is now represented not by a few scattered groups which taken altogether number not more than six or seven millions, but by vast populations which, in the aggregate, number not far short of a hundred millions.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

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