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Byzantine Vs Western Church

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The Byzantines are very much against the Western Church. In fact, they do not even consider the Western Church to be truly Christian. In the Ottonian version of history, Pope John XII is regarded as being evil. This dislike for the Western Church is also exemplified by the instance in which envoys from Pope John XIII were thrown into jail for bearing a papal letter addressed to the "emperor of the Greeks." The rift between the Western Church and that of Byzantine was caused by the development of Iconoclasm in the Byzantine Empire as well as the issue of the extent of control that religious leaders should have in

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