The Council of Chalcedon in November 451 CE set the Christological tone of Orthodox Church for almost 1,500 years following the event. A multitude of controversies occurred between the Eastern and Western Church leading to and following the 451 meeting. Ultimately, the tension between the Greek-speaking West and Latin-speaking East led to the Great East-West Schism of the Orthodox Church in 1054 CE. The church was now divided into the sects of Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, of which a sect known as the Oriental Orthodox Church emerged a short while after the Schism. The secondary repercussions of the East-West Schism influenced the relations between the Roman Catholic Church and what would become the Oriental Orthodox Church. Many
