NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Western Church

Most commonly, it refers to the great East-West Schism, the event that separated Eastern Orthodoxy and Western Roman Catholicism in the eleventh century (1054).
In the second schism within the Catholic Church, the Western Schism in the fourteenth century (1378), three (claimant) popes were elected at the same time.

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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Latin Church (776 words)
	The word Church (ecclesia) is used in its first sense to express whole congregation of Catholic Christendom united in one Faith, obeying one hierarchy in communion with itself.
	It is in this sense that we speak of the Latin Church.
	All to the west of this was the Latin Church.

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