Western Schism: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Invalidated site: Learn Religions - The Great Schism of 1054. Sep 10, 2026
Add new Web site: Christian History Institute - 1378 The Great Papal Schism. May 16, 2025
Add new Web site: ABC listen - Popes and anti-Popes: what was the Great Western Schism all about? Feb 21, 2025
Add new Web site: Social Sciences LibreTexts - The Babylonian Captivity and the Great Western Schism. May 03, 2024
Add new Web site: Social Sciences LibreTexts - The Western Schism. Mar 11, 2024
Changed Clement VII to Clement (VII). Jan 11, 2024
Add new Web site: EWTN - The Great Schism That Divided East and West. Dec 17, 2023
Add new Web site: CORE - THE GREAT SCHISM: The Great Divide of the West, the East and Christianity. Oct 13, 2023
Add new Web site: Learn Religions - The Great Schism of 1054. Sep 01, 2023
Add new Web site: National Geographic - Great Schism. May 21, 2022
Media added. Aug 19, 2019
Added cross-references throughout. Aug 19, 2019
Added video. Oct 14, 2015
Article revised to clarify that the Avignon pope was deposed as a result of the arrangement that ended the schism. Sep 28, 2015
Add new Web site: Middle Ages for Kids - The Great Schism. Apr 25, 2013
Add new Web site: Fact Monster - Society - Great Schism. Sep 08, 2011
Article revised and updated. Dec 14, 2007
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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