List excommunicated

The Excommunication is most serious of the canonical sorrows at the catholic and the orthodoxe .

At the beginnings of Christianity

As of the council of Elvire about the year 300, the Church Catholique punishes any person practitioner the termination of pregnancy of excommunication (Today the abortion causes an excommunication latae sententiae , i.e. an automatic exclusion of the simple fact of the act).
Arius in 325 to have stated the Heresy of the Arianisme, according to which Jesus-Christ is not God, but is suborbonné to him (see also article Filioque).
the emperor of Rome Théodose Ier, by Holy Ambroise and to have practiced a repression which killed more than 7.000 Romans. Excommunication was raised only when the emperor, after several months, agreed to publicly make Repentance of his action, while arising publicly covered of ashes to require its rehabilitation.

With the the Middle Ages

Photius in 863 (and 879), in its fight for the succession with the patriarch Ignace. One will speak about the Schisme Photius.
Robert the Piles is excommunicated in 999 for its marriage between blood relations with his/her German cousin Berthe of Burgundy.
Michel Ier Cérulaire is excommunicated the July 16th 1054 by the Pope Leon IX acting via his legate Humbert de Moyenmoûtier. It was the first act of the Great Schism of the East
the Germanic emperor Henri IV, during the Querelle of the Nominations in 1076.
the king of France Philippe I {{er}} to have repudiated Berthe of Holland and to have married Bertrade de Montfort in 1092.
Henri V puts an end to the excommunication initiated by its father by signing the Concordat of Worms in 1122
Louis VII of France while trying to impose its candidate on the seat of Bourges in 1141 against Pierre of Châtre, supported by the pope Innocent II. The April 22nd 1144, it takes part in the conference of Saint-Denis definitively to regulate the conflict between the Holy See and him.
Manfred Ier of Sicily in 1258, to be itself made crown king of Sicily whereas Conrad V had not died yet.
Philippe IV Beautiful the in 1302, to have refused to recognize that it held of the pope the sovereignty of his kingdom.
Gilles de Rais, the October 8th 1440 at the time of its lawsuit, shown to have raped, have tortured and have assassinated 140 children.

Great schism of Occident

Following dissentions concerning the election of the pope, Christendom had one moment to three popes who of course excommunicated themselves mutually. See the corresponding article.

modern Time

Martin Luther in 1521, for its opposition to the drifts of the Roman Catholicism . He will be the initiator of the Protestantisme (Luthéranisme)
Henry VIII in 1533 for his very personal matrimonial practices. This one reacts while cutting any contact with Rome and by founding the Anglicanisme, thus cutting Rome of an important source of incomes. Excommunication loses from this date any dissuasive value near the sovereigns of Europe.
Elisabeth I {{Re}} of England in 1570, Rome refusing its title of queen to him and showing it to support English Protestantism.

contemporary Time

Alfred Loisy in 1907, for the publication of its book the Gospel and the Church , by which he intended to refute the Gasoline of Christianity of the Protestant theologist Harnack.
Adolf Hitler latæ sententiæ of the fact… of the installation of a policy of abortions towards certain populations, according to the canonical code of right into force of 1917 (guns included in the current canon law: n°1398 and 1314). Strange situation: it is Mussolini which suggested with the Pape Pie XII explicitly excommunicating Hitler and the pope who refused by calling upon the real risks violent reprisals on the clergy and the faithful ones of Germany.

All Christians supporting the atheistic dictatorships like the Communism, following the Encyclical Divini Redemptoris .
the father Jean-Bertrand Aristide, president of Haiti following the massacre with barbarous acts of presumedly collaborator of Duvalier.
M {{gr.}} Lefebvre in 1988, latæ sententiæ , to have ordered bishops without the agreement of the pope. He is the founder of the Sacerdotal Fraternité Saint-Magpie X. The four bishops are also excommunicated whom it devoted: Bernard Fellay, Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, Richard Williamson and Alfonso de Galarreta.
Tired Georges Vergnas, priest défroqué having questioned in its writings the thesis of the historicity of Christ.
Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull (???)
all politicians supporting the right to the abortion, all the doctors and member of the medical personnel the practitioner or the assistant, and all women undergoing it voluntarily; all latæ sententiæ . [http://ncronline.org/NCR_Online/archives/011703/011703d.htm]

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