Ecumenism Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Ancient apostolic churches=== {{Further|Christology#Post-Apostolic controversies}} The oldest lasting schism in Christianity resulted from fifth-century disagreements on [[Christology]], heightened by [[Philosophy|philosophical]], [[Linguistics|linguistic]], [[Culture|cultural]], and [[Politics|political]] differences. The first significant, lasting split in historic Christianity, the so-called [[Nestorian Schism]], came from the [[Church of the East]], consisting largely of Eastern Syriac churches outside the [[Roman Empire]], who left full communion after 431 in response to misunderstandings and personality conflicts at the [[First Council of Ephesus|Council of Ephesus]]. After fifteen centuries of estrangement, the Assyrian Church of the East and the Catholic Church entered into an ecumenical dialogue in the 1980s, resulting in agreement on the very issue that split them asunder, in the [[Common Christological Declaration between the Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East|1994 Common Christological Declaration]], which identifies the origin of the schism as largely linguistic, due to problems of translating very delicate and precise terminology from Latin to [[Aramaic]] and vice versa. As part of the then-ongoing Christological controversy, following the [[Council of Chalcedon]] in 451, the next large split came with the [[Syriac Orthodox Church|Syriac]] and [[Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria|Coptic]] churches dividing themselves. The churches dissented from Chalcedon, becoming today's Oriental Orthodox Churches. These also include the [[Armenian Apostolic Church]], the [[Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church]], and the [[Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church]] in India. In modern times, there have also been moves towards healing this division, with common Christological statements being made between [[Pope John Paul II]] and Syriac patriarch [[Ignatius Zakka I Iwas]], as well as between representatives of both Oriental Orthodoxy and the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]].<ref>Chapman, J. (1911). [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10489b.htm "Monophysites and Monophysitism".] in ''The Catholic Encyclopedia''. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved June 4, 2009</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page