This event was preceded by the Battle of Civitate one year earlier and the absence of the Lombard catepan Argyrus at that battle served as a catalyst for its occurrence.
This event was preceded by the Battle of Civitate one year earlier and the absence of the Lombard catepan Argyrus at that battle served as a catalyst for its occurrence. The designation of one group as "azymites" by the other was a cause of conflict, and a letter from the Archbishop of Ochrid to the Bishop of Trani played a large role in prompting it, as did more notable letters exchanged between Michael Cerularios and Cardinal Humbert on behalf of Pope Leo IX. Unsuccessful attempts to reverse it occurred at the Second Council of Lyons in 1254 and also at the Council of Florence. FTP, name this event of 1054 CE which divided Greek Eastern Orthodoxy and Latin Western Catholicism in a rather large way.
This event was preceded by the Battle of Civitate one year earlier and the absence of the Lombard catepan Argyrus at that battle served as a catalyst for its occurrence.
{Great Schism} (or East-West Schism)