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c. 1000 – 1061

Humbert of Silva Candida

Worth knowing

  • A cardinal and church reformer, sent by the pope to Constantinople in 1054.
  • On 16 July 1054 he laid a bull excommunicating the patriarch Michael Cerularius on the altar of Hagia Sophia. It is the event usually used to date the split between the Eastern and Western churches.
  • The excommunications of 1054 were formally lifted by Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras in 1965.

In Scholar’s Dream, Humbert of Silva Candida has one book

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