Sentences with 'excommunicated'
Example sentences and phrases with the word excommunicated and other words derived from it.
• « In Rome, Pope Gregory II was horrified and excommunicated Leo III. Leo III, in turn, declared that the Pope no longer had any religious authority in the Byzantine Empire, which for all practical purposes meant the regions under Byzantine control in Italy, Sicily and the Balkans. »
• « The final and permanent division between the Western and Eastern churches, which had already existed de facto for centuries, came in 1054, when Pope Leo IX and Patriarch Michael I excommunicated each other after Michael refused to recognise Leo's pre-eminence - this event cemented the "Great Schism" (schism means "rupture" or "split") between the Western and Eastern churches. »
• « Spinoza was excommunicated from Judaism itself when he was only twenty-four years old, but he continued to publish his works, thus laying the foundation for what later became known as "freethinkers", people who may or may not be true atheists, but who certainly rejected the authority of sacred writings and churches. »