Word: eugenius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dominic, condemned clerical loose-living, and approved rules for the Inquisition. Two of the medieval councils-Lyon (1274) and Florence (1439-45)-tried to patch up the breach between Eastern and Western Christianity that had existed since 1054. A delegation of Greek bishops at Florence recognized Pope Eugenius IV as head of the church. But Orthodox monks and parish priests were opposed to reunion, and the delegates renounced the agreement. "May our hands, which signed the unjust decree, be cut off," they declared...