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The Council of Chalcedon was a church council which was held in the year of 451 AD. This was known as the fourth ecumenical council meaning that it was a meeting discussing the matter of the Church and its practices. This significant event roughly had 500 bishops coming from the Eastern Churches, Rome and a few from Africa.
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The East/West Schism or more commonly known as The Great Schism, was an event where the Catholic Church split into the Eastern and Western Christian churches. This was because the current pope at the time, being Leo IX, decided to split the Church to prevent any disagreements and further conflict
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The Plague or the Black Death was a disease which was very deadly, it was able to wipe out over a quarter or the European population over a short amount of time. This then lead to the over-use of indulgences, which were pieces of paper saying that they had been forgiven for their sins.
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The Reformation was an era where the Catholic Church was very corrupt and any sins could be forgiven with a piece of paper which the bishops and priests would sell to the public, completely ignoring the teachings of the bible
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Martin Luther, a very important person in the Catholic society that helped the church find its way back to what it was after the reformation. He proposed a list of ideas and spread them across the world for all catholics to see. The fact that there were indulgences to forgive sins already committed or sins to committed was a clear sign that the church was losing its way from it’s original idea. To spread the word of the Bible.
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The Council Of Trent which was held in Trento in Northern Italy, it was a meeting between many important people, reinstating the rules and making a proper structure to build the Catholic society to what it used to be, making new rules including, the end of indulgences and the requirements to become the pope
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The Peace of Augsburg or the Augsburg Settlement, was a trey signed by Charles V and an alliance of Lutheran Princes, also known as the Schmalkadic League. This treaty ended the religions struggles between Christendom and the Holy Roman Empire, thus dividing them into individual religions.
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The First Vatican council was the twentieth ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church. It was convoked by Pope Pius IX, to deal with the small problems of the Church at the current time. Roughly 1000 bishops were able to participate also 6 other decrees
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The Second Vatican council was the most recent ecumenical council which started in 1962 and ended in 1965, It was announced by Pope John XXIII, he wanted to express the spiritual renewal of the church and as an occasion for Christians to separate from the Rome to join the search for unity or reunion.
