Humbert of Silva Candida
French cardinal, writer and diplomat
b. c. 1000 · d. 5 May 1061
Humbert of Silva Candida, O.S.B., also known as Humbert of Moyenmoutier was a French Benedictine abbot and later cardinal. It was his act of excommunicating the Patriarch of Constantinople, Michael I Cerularius, in 1054 that is generally regarded as the precipitating event of the East–West Schism between the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Related people
- Stephen IX consecrator of · traditional
Events
- The Great Schism 1054
Places
- Lotharingia birth
- Archbasilica of St. John Lateran burial
- Rome death
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- East and West: The Making of a Rift in the Church 1 claim — The Great Schism