Question on CAF Article

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I have a question on the following excerpt from an article in CA on Eastern Orthodoxy:

During the years of conflict between East and West, the Roman pontiff remained firm, defending the Catholic faith against heresies and unruly or immoral secular powers, especially the Byzantine emperor. The first conflict came when Emperor Constantius appointed an Arian heretic as patriarch. Pope Julian excommunicated the patriarch in 343, and Constantinople remained in schism until John Chrysostom assumed the patriarchate in 398.

catholic.com/library/Eastern_Orthodoxy.asp

How is it possible for this article to claim that Rome and Constantinople were in continuous schism from 343 to 398?

There were two bishops during this time - St. Paul the Confessor and St. Gregory Nazianzen - who were wholly orthodox, so the schism cannot have been continuous.

Should this entry in the article be corrected?

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Marduk

P.S. If this is the incorrect forum for this matter, I hope the mods move it to the appropriate forum.
 
First off, the article dosen’t say Rome was in schism.

Second off, as far as I remember, Constant(name removed by moderator)ole was in continuous schism because it had no patriarch between the time of the excommunication of the Arian and the election of St. John. A Christian community without a Bishop has no connection to the Church, for the Church is in the Bishop.
 
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First off, the article dosen’t say Rome was in schism.
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Rome and Constantinople were in schism from each other. To say only Constantinople was in schism seems to me only a sophism, and detracts from the reality that Rome also had its share in causing the schism.
Second off, as far as I remember, Constant(name removed by moderator)ole was in continuous schism because it had no patriarch between the time of the excommunication of the Arian and the election of St. John. A Christian community without a Bishop has no connection to the Church, for the Church is in the Bishop.
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I mentioned two orthodox Catholic bishops of Constantinople in the OP. How do you take them into account?

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BUMP.

Sorry for my persistence, but I am wondering if the article in CAF mentioned in this thread needs to be changed/revised.

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