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In Christianity, a schism occurs when a single religious body divides and becomes two separate religious bodies. The split can be violent or nonviolent but results in at least one of the two newly-created bodies considering itself distinct from the other.
A schism (/ ˈ s ɪ z ə m / SIZ-əm, / ˈ s k ɪ z ə m /, SKIZ-əm or, less commonly, / ˈ ʃ ɪ z ə m / SHIZ-əm) is a division between people, usually belonging to an organization, movement, or religious denomination.
t. e. Paradise, in an Armenian manuscript (1693) The Armenian Apostolic Church ( Armenian: Հայ Առաքելական Եկեղեցի, romanized : Hay Aṙak'elakan Yekeghetsi) [note 1] is the national church of Armenia. Part of Oriental Orthodoxy, it is one of the most ancient Christian institutions. [6]
The schism between the Western and Eastern Mediterranean Christians resulted from a variety of political, cultural and theological factors which transpired over centuries. Historians regard the mutual excommunications of 1054 as the terminal event.
The local churches of the Ecumenical Patriarchate consist of six archdioceses, 66 metropolises, 2 dioceses and one exarchate, each of which reports directly to the Patriarch of Constantinople with no intervening authority. Map of the Greek Orthodox Metropolises in Asia Minor c. 1880.
The Great Schism, also called the East-West Schism, divided Christendom into Western (Latin) and Eastern (Greek) branches, which then became the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church, respectively.
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Schism, in Christianity, a break in the unity of the church. In the early church, “schism” was used to describe those groups that broke with the church and established rival churches. The term originally referred to those divisions that were caused by disagreement over something other than basic.
