schism in Christianity
division between people, usually belonging to an christian organization
Crotty Schism
19th-century Irish Catholic schism
Nonjuring schism
split in the Anglican church of the 17th and 18th centuries over whether William III and Mary II could legally be recognised as sovereigns
East-West Schism
division of Christianity into two large parts in 1054
Western Schism
split within the Catholic Church from 1378 to 1417, in which bishops in Rome and Avignon both claimed to be the pope, joined by a third line of Pisan popes in 1409
Nestorian Schism
schism between the Christian churches of Sassanid Persia affiliated with Nestorius and churches that rejected him, arising out of a Christological dispute, caused by the Council of Ephesus (431)