Historical FigureMale
Humbert de Silva Candida
1000 – 1061
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryHumbert 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.
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
November 30, 999
Lotharingia
Date of death
May 5, 1061
Rome
Citizenship
France
Occupations & fields
writerdiplomatCatholic priest
- Field and occupation
- francouzský kardinál
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