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Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople

Timeline Event · 1204 CE · Constantinople

Latin crusaders capture and plunder Constantinople, deepening alienation between Eastern and Western Christians.

Sources and further reading

2003 North American Orthodox–Catholic Filioque consultation, p. 8 (Joint historical-theological study)
John Paul II to Patriarch Bartholomew I on 1204 (Website)
OCA: A History of the Orthodox Church (Website)

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Constantinople (Church Center)
The long East–West rupture (Church History)
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