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Historical recounts—whether from the Church or secular—have used the year The Great Schism was a gradual estrangement to which no specific date can be assigned but which has been conventionally dated to 1054 as the point where the See of Rome split from the Church. However, it This date is misleading because since it implies seems to imply that before 1054 there was alright peace and after unity before 1054 there was , animosityand division afterward. The events that led up to the split schism actually took several centuries to crystalize into a split. Likewise, Some would place the split itself took a while after 1054. (Some people would mark earlier -- in the time of Saint Photios, for example, or even earlier -- or as late as 1204, the year of the Fourth Crusade, as the straw that broke the camel's back as far as Rome-Church relations.)

"The Great Ecumenical Schism" is the preferred term to succinctly explain what happened and to capture the complexity of the event itself. This is especially the case for discussing this in a Western audience so because the name term "The Great Schism" refers also is often used to refer to what happened in the a 14th century schism involving the location of the Avignon [[PopePapal|Papacy]] being either in Rome or in Avignon. This (an event is also sometimes called the "Babylonian Captivity")."