Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans is hosting a lecture this Friday at 7:00 PM CST by Fr. Andrew Louth entitled, “Fact and Fiction in the Greek Schism.” It will be live-streamed at their website, nds.edu.
“The Great Schism (sometimes called the Eastern Schism in the West) is customarily dated to 1054. The exchange of anathemas that took place in that year between the papal legates and the Ecumenical Patriarch were scarcely regarded as of such significance by contemporaries; it could even be maintained that the solemn lifting of the anathemas by Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras at their meeting in Jerusalem in 1965 had the unfortunate effect of giving symbolic significance to 1054 in the history of relationships between East and West. The roots of the Great Schism reach back long before 1054, and if any date is to be regarded as final, a better candidate would be 1204, when Constantinople was sacked by the Fourth Crusade. The lecture will look at the issues lying behind the Schism and discuss prospects for its final resolution.”
