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The History of the Crusades (vol. 2 of 3)

Note 108 — BOOK XI.

William Robson translation

The Greeks and Latins were divided on three principal points; first, the addition made by the Latin Church to the creed of Constantinople, to declare that the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Father; 2nd the refusal on the part of the Greeks to acknowledge the primacy of the pope; 3rdly the pretension of the Greeks that it is not possible to consecrate in the Eucharist with unleavened bread. Photius began the schism; the patriarch Cerularius established it; this latter wished to be acknowledged as the head of the universal Church instead of the pope. L’Abbé Fleury, in his Histoire Ecclesiastique, thinks that the schism of the Greeks only really began at the period the Latins were masters of Constantinople.

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