What lead to the breakdown in the relations between the Latin-speaking churches of Western and Central Europe and the Greek-speaking churches of the Byzantine Empire?

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

A. Breakdown of relations
1. growing differences
a. between Constantinople and Rome over rites, doctrines,
language, and discipline
b. From the 790s, Greek and Latin congregations recited slightly
different versions of the creed
2. power and control over the church
a. mid-sixth century, Eastern churches resisted or rejected the
supremacy of the pope
b. bishops, or patriarchs, of Constantinople became increasingly
the spokesmen for the Greek version of Christianity
c. popes consolidated their power over the Latin church
3. cultural differences
a. language was in part to blame for theological bitterness
b. Greek-speaking Byzantine Empire could not share the common
culture of the Latin-speaking elites of Western and Central
Europe
c. Latin West could not speak or read Greek with fluency
d. subtle theological differences, inexpressible in Latin, came
easily in Greek
e. universal dogmas turned out differently in the two tongues
4. refusal of Byzantine Empire's help to defeat Normans
a. relations between the Eastern and Western churches never fully
recovered
LO 1