Arsenite Schism

The Arsenite Schism was a conflict dividing the Byzantine Church between 1265 and 1310. The schism began when a church synod deposed the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Arsenios Autoreianos on the initiative of Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos.

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