censure used to deprive, suspend, or limit participation in a faith community
10 dated entries naming Excommunication, drawn from 10 separate years between 496 CE and 1871 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
496Emperor Anastasius I has Euphemius, patriarch of Constantinople, deposed and excommunicated. He appoints Macedonius II as his successor. Euphemius is sent into exile.source
498November 19 – Pope Anastasius II dies after a 2-year reign in which he has tried to conciliate followers of Acacius, late patriarch of Constantinople, who was excommunicated by Felix III.source
6th century
567The Second Council of Tours is held. It decrees that any cleric found in bed with his wife will be excommunicated.source
9th century
814Byzantine Iconoclasm: Conflict erupts between Emperor Leo V and Patriarch Nikephoros, on the subject of iconoclasm. The latter is excommunicated.source
10th century
998Winter – King Robert II (the Pious) is excommunicated by Gregory V. For reasons of consanguinity, his second marriage to Bertha of Burgundy is not accepted by the Catholic Church.source
14th century
1314May 14 – In Italy, more than 50 of the Fraticelli spiritualists of the Franciscan order of Tuscany are excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church by the Archbishop of Genoa after refusing to return to obedience to the Pope.source
1329April – Antipope Nicholas V is excommunicated by Pope John XXII.source
15th century
1497May 12 – Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.source
16th century
1585September 21 – Pope Sixtus V excommunicates King Henry IV, the heir presumptive to Henry III and declares him ineligible to inherit the crown.source
19th century
187124 September – Mother Mary MacKillop is excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church after refusing to disband the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart order.source