Mission: Prevent or heal the East-West Schism

Your mission is should u choose to accept it to create a PoD starting in 8th-9th century in which the East-West Schism is prevented.

Option 2: Create a PoD starting after 1054 in which Schism is healed and church unity is preserved
 
The most obvious one imo is butterflying away Charlemagne and his empire. That way the Papacy wouldn't have the same prestige, without a great power backing it, to go head to head with the Eastern Roman Church in the following centuries.
 

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The most obvious one imo is butterflying away Charlemagne and his empire. That way the Papacy wouldn't have the same prestige, without a great power backing it, to go head to head with the Eastern Roman Church in the following centuries.

This and an agreement with or subjucation of the Papacy by the Byzantines. In reality the Schism was a gradual process which occured much later on rather than in one strike in 1054.
 
Failing that, have events exist where the 1054 events are seen as what they were - mutual pigheadedness by individuals at the time.

It would probably remain a division without a more cooperative spirit than was present even beforehand, however. Its not good enough to say the papal envoys (of a deceased pope) and the patriarch of Constantinople were pigheaded - people need to see that there is only Christianity and "all else is a dispute over trifles".

Not likely to happen.
 
No particular order:

Stop Charlemagne and the Gallicans from forcing the filioque into the Creed.

Maintain Greek literacy in the Papal court. Already in the 6th c. CE there were a dearth of fluent Greek speakers and writers in the Papal power circles.

Respect the Council of Trullo and formally allow Roman parish priests to wed before ordination. Technically, celibacy was required for all Roman clergy in the early medieval period, but the rule was often openly flouted by parish clergymen. Clerical celibacy for the parish clergy was not effectively enforced until after Trent.
 
I believe that eliminating Filioque would be a good thing to start...
But how can u press the Pope to turn to Eastern Romans for help instead of Franks? If Papacy turns to Constantinople for help i guess that Pope could be a loyal vassal of the Emperor (assuming that "Donatio Constantini doesnt pop out somewhere...)
 
I believe that eliminating Filioque would be a good thing to start...
But how can u press the Pope to turn to Eastern Romans for help instead of Franks? If Papacy turns to Constantinople for help i guess that Pope could be a loyal vassal of the Emperor (assuming that "Donatio Constantini doesnt pop out somewhere...)

That's exactly the problem. The Papal-Frankish power relationship has to be blocked relatively early on in order for Rome to have a nicer relationship with Constantinople. I just don't see the Popes getting out from under a marriage of convenience with the Franks. It's almost ASB for the Popes to spurn the Frankish monarchs for a faraway empire that has almost completely forgotten about them.
 
Something else to be addressed are the growing differences between the Churches in East and West, and the fact that by the tenth century, the only sees of consequence left are Constantinople and Rome. Building consensus among five can be easier than among two.
 
Related idea for another thread, albeit maybe usefull here.. or going against it; what if Constantinople became the ONLY Patriarche in the east, to Match or counter Rome? Because it was a city more important than Rome itself by then...
 
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