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re:When were the excommuications lifted? That gives us the time period when the antiCatholics have been operating.

You are living in denial. Where does the current pope or any pope say that the Eastern Orthodox are part of the Catholic Church?

By the way, there are no lifting of excommunications. That is a big canard. I did a whole thread on the subject. I'm sure you read it. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2679932/posts:

The LIFTING THE ANATHEMAS HOAX

(DECEMBER 7, 1965)- THE ‘LIFTING’ OF THE ANATHEMAS-

On 7 December 1965, Cardinal Jan Willebrands read to the bishops of Vatican II the declaration of Pope Paul VI lifting the excommunication that the Envoy of Pope Leo IX had imposed on the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Michael Cerularius, in 1054. At the same time, in the Patriarchal Cathedral of Saint George in Constantinople, the synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate ‘lifted’ the anathemas imposed on the papal ambassadors in 1054 by Patriarch Michael Cerularius and the patriarchal synod of Constantinople and subsequently ratified and adopted by all orthodox churches.

This document above of no juridical value whatsoever, just a nice gesture is all it is. Michael Cerularius remains an excommunicated.

1) For one, the Patriarch of Constantinople has no authority to bind any of the other Orthodox Churches, as a matter of fact his Patriarchy consists of only 3.5 million people.

2) Pope Paul VI has no authority to ‘lift” the excommunication of Michael Cerularius, since he died almost 1000 years ago. You can't “lift” the excommunication of a dead man, he is already in hell for all eternity. It's a different matter if a pope were to undertake to disprove the validity of an excommunication (like Joan of Arc), but that is not what Paul VI did, he just simply signed the declaration above.