NOUN
- the period from 1378 to 1417 during which there were two papacies in the Roman Catholic Church, one in Rome and one in Avignon
How To Use Great Schism In A Sentence
- Several decades later, there was a great schism in the catholic church.
- During the Great Schism from 1378 to 1417 one reason for Scotland's recognition of the Avignon popes was that the English were supporting the rival popes at Rome.
- the antipopes resided in Avignon during the Great Schism
- Great schisms have developed on such issues as biotechnology, agriculture, services, and culture.
- During the Avignonian captivity and the Great Schism, Italy developed intellectual and confederative unity, imposing her laws of culture and of state-craft even on the Papacy when it returned to Rome. Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
- In the end opinion polarized on a range of issues and the two groups went their separate ways in what became known as the ‘Great Schism’.
