The Great Schism

[Prince Ire]

While the split was officially at a later date, the two churches became irrevocably separate with the crowning of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor. There's no reason not to represent Orthodox and Catholic as separate religions in game.

The crowning of Charlemagne really wasn't that big a deal for relations between the Latin and Greek churches. Charlemagne's empire crumbled within a few generations of his crowning, after all. The big areas of conflict were between the Pope and the Byznatine Emperor over the role the Emperor should have in theology. When the Emperor in Constantinople wrote that the Pope had to obey him because he was the Emperor, the Pope's reply had nothing to do with the existence of a Western Emperor (which I 'd have to double check the dates but may have once again ceased to be by the time they were writing each other) but was instead "The Chair of Peter was established by Christ and will stand long after your empire has ceased to be."

 

[Byzantium2000]

I don't really see how that argument could hold any water to be honest.
The separation between the churches was both gradual and with very ancient roots, as soon as the Byzantines couldn't keep the Papacy under control the Western church started behaving independently from Constantinople, and the only thing that kept the division from becoming official as early as the 8/9th century was that neither Catholics nor Orthodoxs wanted to split the universal church (although the division was actually already underway).

Autonomy is not seperation. I don’t see why the Byzantine having to control Rome meant them being together. Their was differences in the Rites all the way back in the 300s probably earlier but they were still in communion with each other, consulted each other, in General Cause with one another against heretics and pagans. A Holy Roman Emperor could take a pilgrimage to a Greek Rite priest and Greek and Latin Rite Monks go to the same monstaries together. A Priest and saint in one was still one in the other. 1054 mattered defacto more then people give it credit for.

I agree 1204 is too far though and is just when the Churches turned really openly hostile towards one another and stoped being occasional allies with Popes after actually supporting holy wars against Orthodoxs.

 

[robomax]

Pdx will be Taking The Catholic Religion out of the Game but still call it Crusaders Kings??? So the
The Great Schism will not be in there

 

[IlikeTrains]

Pdx will be Taking The Catholic Religion out of the Game but still call it Crusaders Kings??? So the
The Great Schism will not be in there

What?