Where can I find information about the great schism of the Catholic Church?
A. The schisms of the Church have been legion. The first one of the Christian Church was under the apostle John. Prior to that there had been major heresies in the Church from time to time. This is covered in the paper Heresy in the Apostolic Church (No. 89). At this time the Church did not call itself Catholic. This terminology did not come in until the end of the Second and beginning of the Third centuries. The first major schism was in 192 with the Passover/Easter controversy when Easter was introduced to the Church from Rome by force. That is in the paper The Quartodeciman Disputes (No. 277). By 325 at the Council of Nicea there had seen so much pagan doctrine introduced through the worship of Attis and the Easter system that another division occurred from the Council of Nicea. The family of Christ called Desposyni had visited Rome in 318 and after their discussions with the bishop of Rome the extermination of this group and the churches associated with them was ordered. This took
A. The schisms of the Church have been legion. The first one of the Christian Church was under the apostle John. Prior to that there had been major heresies in the Church from time to time. This is covered in the paper Heresy in the Apostolic Church (No. 89). At this time the Church did not call itself Catholic. This terminology did not come in until the end of the Second and beginning of the Third centuries. The first major schism was in 192 with the Passover/Easter controversy when Easter was introduced to the Church from Rome by force. That is in the paper The Quartodeciman Disputes (No. 277). By 325 at the Council of Nicea there had seen so much pagan doctrine introduced through the worship of Attis and the Easter system that another division occurred from the Council of Nicea. The family of Christ called Desposyni had visited Rome in 318 and after their discussions with the bishop of Rome the extermination of this group and the churches associated with them was ordered. This took
