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This '''timeline of Orthodox Christian and [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] relations''' chronicles major dates which concern the relationship between the two communions.

*37-53 Episcopia [[Apostolului Petru]] în Antiohia.

*64 Martiriul Sfântului Petru în Roma.

*255 [[Cyprian of Carthage]] rejects Pope [[Stephen I of Rome|Stephen I]]'s ruling on the [[Donatism|Donatist]] controversy.

*325 Original [[Nicene Creed]] ratified at [[First Ecumenical Council]].

*330 Founding of Constantinople as New Rome, renaming the city of Byzantium.

*752 Founding of Papal States (lasting until 1870).

*792 Charlemagne accuses "Greeks" of deleting ''Filioque'' from original Creed.

*800 Usurpation of Western Roman Empire by Charlemagne.

*1452 Unification of [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] and [[Greek Orthodox]] Churches in the [[cathedral]] of [[Hagia Sophia (Constantinople)|Hagia Sophia]] on [[December 12]], five months before the city fell, on the West's terms, when Emperor [[Constantine XI Palaiologos]], under pressure from Rome, allows the union to be proclaimed by the former Metropolitan of Kiev [[w:Isidore of Kiev|Isidore]] (who had participated in the [[Council of Florence]] and was now a cardinal in the Roman Catholic church) who read the solemn promulgation of union and celebrated the union liturgy, including the name of the [[pope]], arousing the greatest agitation among the population of the city.<ref>[[w:George Ostrogorsky|Georgije Ostrogorski]]. ''[http://books.google.ca/books?id=Ir7CKnBxRXwC&source=gbs_navlinks_s History of the Byzantine State].'' Rutgers University Press, 1969. p.568.</ref><ref name="Hinson">E. Glenn Hinson. ''[http://books.google.ca/books?id=cY1SymrAGeEC&source=gbs_navlinks_s The Church Triumphant: A History of Christianity up to 1300].'' Mercer University Press, 1995. p.443.</ref><ref group="note">Although some of the Greek party, especially [[w:Basilios Bessarion|Bessarion, Metropolitan of Nicaea]], and [[w:Isidore of Kiev|Isidore]], former Metropolitan of Kiev and all all Rus', showed real concern for unity, they could not rally support for it in the East. The Patriarchates of [[Church of Alexandria|Alexandria]], [[Church of Antioch|Antioch]], and [[Church of Jerusalem|Jerusalem]] and the churches of [[Church of Russia|Russia]], [[Church of Romania|Romania]], and [[Church of Serbia|Serbia]] all rejected it immediately. In Byzantium only a small minority accepted it. Emperors John VIII and and [[Constantine XI Palaiologos|Constantine IX]] (1448-1453) proved unable to force their will on the Church. Most Byzantines felt betrayed. (E. Glenn Hinson. ''[http://books.google.ca/books?id=cY1SymrAGeEC&source=gbs_navlinks_s The Church Triumphant: A History of Christianity up to 1300].'' Mercer University Press, 1995. p.443.)</ref>

*1453 Fall of Constantinople to Ottoman Turks;<ref group="note">[[w:Loukas Notaras|Loukas Notaras]] the last [[w:Megas doux|Megas Doux]] of the Byzantine Empire, had remarked: ''"better the turban of the Turk than the tiara of the Pope!"'' This was typical of the sentiment among the monastic party, opposed to the Council of Ferrara-Florence, of whom the future Patriarch [[Gennadius Scholarius]] was the leader.</ref> numerous Greek scholars flee to West, triggering European Renaissance.

*1463 Greek scholar and pro-unionist [[w:Basilios Bessarion|Basilios Bessarion]], formerly an Orthodox Metropolitan, later becoming a Roman Catholic Cardinal, is given the purely ceremonial title of ''[[w:Latin Patriarch of Constantinople|Latin Patriarch of Constantinople]]'' by Pope Pius II.

*1938 In the [[w:Volhynia|Volhynia]] region of modern day Western Ukraine, by 1938 the Polish government had overseen the destruction of 190 Orthodox churches and converted a further 150 churches to Roman Rite Catholicism, despite its Ukrainian majority, and despite Pope Leo XIII's encycical ''[[w:Orientalium Dignitas|Orientalium Dignitas]]'' of 1894; the few Orthodox churches that were permitted to stay open were forced to use the Polish language in their liturgies.<ref name="Kania">Dr. Andrew Thomas Kania. ''[http://www.catholicukes.org.au/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=785 Moral Hemophilia: Concept and Reality (cf. Luke 10: 29 – 37)].'' Fri 28 of Aug., 2009 11:13 EST;</ref> [[American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese]] founded, when a group of 37 Carpatho-Russian [[Eastern Catholic Churches|Eastern Catholic]] parishes, under the leadership of Fr. [[Orestes (Chornock) of Agathonikeia|Orestes Chornock]], were received into the jurisdiction of the [[Church of Constantinople|Ecumenical Patriarchate]].

*1939 The last remaining Orthodox Church in [[w:Lutsk|Lutsk]], the Volhynian capital was converted by Polish State decree to [[Roman rite|Roman Rite]] Catholicism.<ref name="Kania"/>

*1941-45 Croatian [[w:Ustaše|Ustasa]]<ref group="note">A Croatian fascist, anti-Yugoslav separatist movement, whose ideological movement was a blend of fascism, Nazism, Croatian ultranationalism, and Roman Catholic [[w:Clerical fascism|Clericalist]] [[w:Fundamentalist Christianity|Fundamentalism]]. (Palmer Domenico, Roy. ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=Z8ZixRcQfV8C&dq=inauthor:%22Roy+P.+Domenico%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Politics]''. Greenwood Publishing Group. 2006. ISBN 0313323623).</ref> terrorists, part of whose ideology included Roman Catholic [[w:Clerical fascism|Clericalist Fundamentalism]], kill 500,000 Orthodox Serbs, expel 250,000 and force 250,000 to convert to [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholicism]];<ref group="note">According to the [[w:Simon Wiesenthal Center|Simon Wiesenthal Center]] (citing the ''[[w:Encyclopedia of the Holocaust|Encyclopedia of the Holocaust]]''). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum states that "Ustaša units, often encouraged by Catholic clergy, carried out a program of compulsory conversion of Orthodox Serbs to Catholicism; resistance often resulted in murder. Some Serbs, particularly members of the elite, were not even offered the option of conversion to avoid being killed." (''[http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/jasenovac/frameset.html Holocaust Era in Croatia 1941-1945 JASENOVAC: History: II Targeted Populations].'' [http://www.ushmm.org/ United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]). The late Bishop [[Nikolai Velimirovic|Nikolai (Velimirovich)]] inscribed into the Church calendar by his own hand the following notation for the date August 31 (O.S.): ''"The 700,000 who suffered for the Orthodox faith at the hands of the Roman crusaders and Ustasi during the time of the Second World War. These are the New Serbian Martyrs."''</ref> the Orthodox in Croatia were forced to wear the Cyrillic letter "P" for Provoslavets, or Orthodox, like the Jews who were forced to wear the Star of David during World War II; <ref name="Ivanov"/> martyrdom of Bp. [[Sava of Gornji Karlovac]], and Fr. [[Djordje Bogic]].

*1963 Pope [[Paul VI of Rome|Paul VI]] announced the relaxation of the Roman Catholic ban on cremation in a confidential letter to bishops and issued his Instruction on 5 July, 1963.<ref>Douglas James Davies, Lewis H. Mates. ''[http://books.google.ca/books?id=BdhDM6Qcl1IC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Encyclopedia of Cremation].'' Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2005. p.141.</ref>

*1964 Mutual lifting of excommunications by Patr. [[Athenagoras I (Spyrou) of Constantinople|Athenagoras I]] and Pope [[Paul VI of Rome|Paul VI]].

*1965 The [[w:North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation|North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation]] is founded, meeting twice yearly; the office of ''[[w:Latin Patriarch of Constantinople|Latin Patriarch of Constantinople]]'' is officially abolished; Professor John Karmiris wrote about the Vatican’s plan to promote the union of the Orthodox and [[w:Papist|Papist]], stating: ''"Pope [[Paul VI]] and his circle of Papist theologians worked out a well-researched and broad program of Rome-centered [[Ecumenism]], in agreement with Latin [[Primacy and Unity in Orthodox Ecclesiology|Ecclesiology]]."''<ref name=PIRAEISandDRYINOUPOLIS35>[[Andrew (Trempelas) of Dryinoupolis|Andrew of Dryinoupolis, Pogoniani and Konitsa]], and, [[Seraphim (Mentzelopoulos) of Piraeus|Seraphim of Piraeus and Faliro]]. ''[http://orthodoxinfo.com/ecumenism/epistle-to-pope-francis.pdf A Letter to Pope Francis Concerning His Past, the Abysmal State of Papism, and a Plea to Return to Holy Orthodoxy].'' HOLY AUTOCEPHALOUS ORTHODOX CATHOLIC CHURCH OF GREECE (THE HOLY METROPOLIS OF DRYINOUPOLIS, POGONIANI AND KONITSA, and, THE HOLY METROPOLIS OF PIRAEUS AND FALIRO). April 10, 2014. p. 35.

*2014 Metropolitans [[Seraphim (Mentzelopoulos) of Piraeus|Seraphim of Piraeus]] and [[Andrew (Trempelas) of Dryinoupolis|Andrew of Dryinoupolis]], of the [[Church of Greece]], write a ''[http://orthodoxinfo.com/ecumenism/epistle-to-pope-francis.pdf lengthy epistle]'' sent to to [[Pope]] Francis on April 10, 2014, concerning his past, the abysmal State of Papism, and a plea to return to Holy Orthodoxy.<ref>[[Andrew (Trempelas) of Dryinoupolis|Andrew of Dryinoupolis, Pogoniani and Konitsa]], and, [[Seraphim (Mentzelopoulos) of Piraeus|Seraphim of Piraeus and Faliro]]. ''[http://orthodoxinfo.com/ecumenism/epistle-to-pope-francis.pdf A Letter to Pope Francis Concerning His Past, the Abysmal State of Papism, and a Plea to Return to Holy Orthodoxy].'' HOLY AUTOCEPHALOUS ORTHODOX CATHOLIC CHURCH OF GREECE (THE HOLY METROPOLIS OF DRYINOUPOLIS, POGONIANI AND KONITSA, and, THE HOLY METROPOLIS OF PIRAEUS AND FALIRO). April 10, 2014. 87 pp.</ref><ref>{{el icon}} ὁ Δρυϊνουπόλεως, Πωγωνιανῆς καί Κονίτσης ΑΝΔΡΕΑΣ, καί ὁ Πειραιῶς ΣΕΡΑΦΕΙΜ. ''[http://www.imp.gr/images/Epikairothta_2014/PAPAS%20EPISTOLH%20ellhnika.pdf Επιστολή προς τον Πάπα].'' ΑΥΤΟΚΕΦΑΛΟΣ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΟΣ ΚΑΘΟΛΙΚΗ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ - (ΙΕΡΑ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΣ ΔΡΥΪΝΟΥΠΟΛΕΩΣ ΠΩΓΩΝΙΑΝΗΣ & ΚΟΝΙΤΣΗΣ καί ΙΕΡΑ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΣ ΠΕΙΡΑΙΩΣ). Tῇ 10ῃ Ἀπριλίου 2014. 121 pp.</ref>

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* [[Vladimir Guettée|Abbé Guettée]] (D.D.). ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=VcEOAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false The Papacy: Its Historic Origin and Primitve Relations with the Eastern Churches].'' Transl. from the French, with an introduction by [[w:Arthur Cleveland Coxe|Arthur Cleveland Coxe]] (Bp. of Western NY). New York; London: S Low, Son & Co.. 1867. 383 pp. ''(Also online [http://www.pravoslavieto.com/books/papacy_abatt_guette.htm here])''

* Andrew J. Ekonomou. ''[http://books.google.ca/books?id=zomZk6DbFTIC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Byzantine Rome and the Greek Popes: Eastern Influences on Rome and the Papacy from Gregory the Great to Zacharias, A.D. 590-752].'' Lexington Books, 2007. 347 pp.

:* -----. ''[http://www.zenit.org/article-12668?l=english Russian Orthodox Official Hopeful for a Prompt Beatification. A Great Pope, Bishop Hilarion Says of John Paul II].'' '''ZENIT News'''. 2005-04-05.

* [[w:Aidan Nichols|Aidan Nichols]] ([[w:Dominican Order|Order of Preachers]]). ''[http://books.google.ca/books?id=Hje62q52XNsC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Rome and the Eastern Churches].'' 2nd Ed. [[w:Ignatius Press|Ignatius Press]], 2010. 350pp.

* Abp. [[w:John R. Quinn|John R. Quinn]]. ''[http://www.amazon.com/Reform-Papacy-Ut-Unum-Sint/dp/0824518268 The Reform of the Papacy: The Costly Call to Christian Unity].'' [[w:Ut Unum Sint|Ut Unum Sint]]: Studies on Papal Primacy. New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1999. 189pp.

:* Fr. Dr. [http://www.wtu.edu/about/facultyresults.asp?ID=16 Russel Murray] (OFM, PhD). ''"Mirror of experience: [[Gregory Palamas|Palamas]] and [[w:Bonaventure|Bonaventure]] on the experience of God--a contribution to Orthodox-Roman Catholic dialogue."'' '''Journal of Ecumenical Studies.''' 44.3 (2009): pp.432+.

:* [[w:Sandro Magister|Sandro Magister]]. ''[http://thevaticanlobby.blogspot.com/2010/07/ukraine-obstacle-to-catholic-orthodox.html Ukraine an Obstacle to Catholic-Orthodox Unity].'' '''The Vatican Lobby'''. Thursday, July 1, 2010.

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