1. The Great Schism splits the Catholic and Orthodox churches.

2. That crisis is the story of the Great Schism .

3. In 1054 the great schism between the eastern and the western churches took place.

4. John Paul II stated that an end to the Great Schism was one of his fondest wishes.

5. This was the first time a pope had visited a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.

6. The differences between the thinking in Byzantium and the west were most profoundly highlighted with the Great Schism, the division of Christendom.