Alexios IV Angelos, the son of the deposed Isaac II, had recently escaped from Constantinople and now appealed to the crusaders, promising to end the schism of East and West, to pay for their transport, and to provide military support to the crusaders if they helped him to depose his uncle and sit on his father's throne.

Sole emperor from 1282, Andronikos II immediately repudiated his father's unpopular Church union with the Papacy ( which he had been forced to support while his father was still alive ), but was unable to resolve the related schism within the Orthodox clergy until 1310.

The council's main purpose was to end the Papal schism which had resulted from the confusion following the Avignon Papacy.

After thirty years of schism, the Council of Pisa had sought to resolve the situation by deposing the two claimant popes and elected a new pope, Alexander V. The council claimed that in such a situation, a council of bishops had greater authority than just one bishop, even if he were the bishop of Rome.

An innovation at the Council was that instead of voting as individuals, the bishops voted in national blocks, explicitly confirming the national pressures that had fueled the schism since 1378.

After the schism this honorary primacy shifted to the Patriarch of Constantinople, who had previously been accorded the second-place rank at the First Council of Constantinople.

What Contarini had to do with it is shown by his letters to the pope in which he complained of the schism in the church, of simony and flattery in the papal court, but above all of papal tyranny, its least grateful passages.

But not all Utraquists approved of the German Reformation ; a schism arose among them, and many returned to the Roman doctrine, while other elements had organised the " Unitas Fratrum " already in 1457.

Justinian entered the arena of ecclesiastical statecraft shortly after his uncle's accession in 518, and put an end to the Monophysite schism that had prevailed between Rome and Constantinople since 483.

In order to make an end of the schism, Felix V finally abdicated on Aleman's advice, and Nicholas V, who had succeeded in 1447, restored the cardinal to all his honours and employed him as legate to Germany in 1449.

In this schism, the papacy had returned to Rome from Avignon, but an anti-pope was installed in Avignon, as if to extend the papacy there.

The Council had not only ended the Monothelite heresy, but also had healed the schism.

Negotiations for union of the eastern and western churches, which had been in a state of schism since 1054, soon got underway.

Francis I of France, who feared that Adrian would become a tool of the Emperor, and had uttered threats of a schism, later relented and sent an embassy to present his homage.

He excommunicated him after protracted negotiations on 13 April 1346 and directed the election of Charles IV, who received general recognition after the death of Louis in October 1347, ending the schism which had long divided Germany.

On 9 December 1513, the fifth Lateran council, which had been reopened by Leo in April, ratified the peace with Louis XII and officially registered the conclusion of the Pisan schism.

It had ended the Pisan schism, ratified the censorship of books introduced by Alexander VI and imposed tithes for a war against the Turks.

The schism ended in 1417 at the Council of Constance after only two Popes had reigned in opposition to the Papacy in Rome.

Not since the 1872 election had there been a major schism in the Republican party.

This final schism reflected a larger cultural and political division which had developed in Europe and southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and coincided with Western Europe's re-emergence from the collapse of the Western Roman Empire.

In the meantime other causes of disagreement appeared when the Pope refused to comply with Frederick I's wishes as to the regulation of German episcopal elections which had taken place during the schism, especially as regards a contested election to the See of Treves in 1183.

Justinian hoped that this would contribute to a reunion between the Chalcedonians and monophysites in the eastern provinces of the Empire ; various attempts at reconciliation between the monophysite and orthodox parties were made by many emperors over the four centuries following the Council of Ephesus, none of them succeeding, and some, attempts at reconciliation, such as this — the condemnation of the Three Chapters — causing further schisms and heresies to arise in the process, such as the aforementioned schism of the Three Chapters, and the heresies of monoenergism and monotheletism — the propositions, respectively, that Christ had only one function, operation, or energy ( purposefully formulated in an equivocal and vague manner, and promulgated between 610 and 622 by the Emperor Heraclius under the advisement of Patriarch Sergius I of Constantinople ) and that Christ only had one will ( promulgated in 638 by the same ).

Instead, the council deposed him and tried him for heresy, simony, schism and immorality, finding him guilty on all counts.

The emphasis on the restoration of truth has led to a history of division and schism that has divided friends and families.

Parallel with this generational change, the articles and books on the doctrine and practice of fellowship with the main " Central " grouping now reject the notion itself of separate " fellowships " among those who recognise the same baptism as " schism ".

Although it fractured the Esperanto movement, the schism gave the remaining Esperantists freedom to concentrate on using and promoting their language as it stood.

Nevertheless, early on there was a serious schism between Hasidic and non-Hasidic Jews.

The council began when Emperor Constantine IV, wanting to heal the schism that separated the two sides, wrote to Pope Donus suggesting a conference on the matter, but Donus was dead by the time the letter arrived.

Adamist religions reject this as an attempt to avoid God's judgment on the soul after death, and it is this which is the root cause of the schism between the Adamist and Edenist cultures.

The code was originally known as " rugby football "; it was not until after the schism in England in 1895, which resulted in the separate code of rugby league, that the sport took on the name " rugby union " to differentiate it from the league game.

1046 Henry ended the papal schism, freed the Papacy from dependence on the Roman nobility, and laid the basis for its universal applicability.

When the schism broke out, Louis VII took the part of the Pope Alexander III, the enemy of Frederick I, and after two comical failures of Frederick I to meet Louis VII at Saint Jean de Losne ( on 29 August and 22 September 1162 ), Louis VII definitely gave himself up to the cause of Alexander III, who lived at Sens from 1163 to 1165.

The schism carried on for some time, however, and it was not until 1728 that Noailles submitted to the pope.

After the Council of Chalcedon, the Monophysite controversy ( together with institutional, political, and growing nationalistic factors ) led to a lasting schism between the Oriental Orthodox churches, on the one hand, and the Western and the Eastern Orthodox churches on the other.

Accepted by the sees of Rome, Constantinople, and Antioch, the Chalcedonian settlement encountered strong resistance in Alexandria ( and in Egypt generally ), leading ultimately to the schism between the Oriental Orthodox churches ( which reject Chalcedon ), on the one hand, and the so-called Chalcedonian churches on the other.

His efforts to resolve this schism was successful, and on 28 March 519, the reunion of the Greek Church with Rome was ratified in the cathedral of Constantinople before a large crowd.

In other cases, denominations form very rapidly, either resulting from a split or schism in an existing denomination, or if people share an experience of spiritual revival or spiritual awakening, and choose to form a new denomination based on that new experience or understanding.

Baldus ' view on the legal issues relating to the schism are laid down in the so called Questio de schismate.

The council went on ( in spite of the intervention of most of the powers ) to pronounce Eugene IV deposed ( 25 June 1439 ), giving rise to a new schism by electing ( 4 November 1439 ) duke Amadeus VIII of Savoy, as ( anti ) pope, who took the name of Felix V.

In the region of Saints Gaius and Eusebius are some crypts set apart, opposite each other, with the tombs of Pope Gaius ( with an inscription ) and Pope Eusebius, who died in Sicily where he had been exiled by Maxentius and whose body was translated to Rome during the pontificate of Militiades ; on a marble copy of the end of the 4th century ( of which fragments may be seen on the opposite wall ) may be read of an inscription by Damasus on the schism provoked by Heraclius over the matter of the lapsi.

In those locations, there are now also Orthodox Patriarchs, but the rivalry between the two has largely vanished in the centuries since schism.

Today, the Assyrian and Roman Catholic Church view this schism as largely linguistic, due to problems of translating very delicate and precise terminology from Latin to Aramaic and vice-versa ( see Council of Ephesus ).

This cooperation between the Renovationists and the Communist regime led to direct schism, largely orchestrated and supported by the Communist authorities, from the patriarchal Church.

The schism between " Orthodoxy " and " Fairbairnism " had largely disappeared from rowing by the 1940s.

After the schism of 1054, the Roman Catholic Church was largely restricted to the Western parts of Europe.

The schism was largely ended in 1788, when Charles Edward Stuart died in exile.

In 1064 he went to Italy to settle a papal schism and was largely instrumental in securing the banishment from court of Archbishop Adalbert of Bremen-Hamburg.