List of schisms in Christianity

This is a list of Christian schisms. A schism in religion is when a single religious body divides and becomes two separate religious bodies. This split can be violent or non-violent but results in at least one of the two newly created bodies considering themselves distinct from the other. This article covers Schisms in Christianity.

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For other uses, see Schism (disambiguation).

Before East-West Schism 1054

• Marcionist schism c.150[1]
• Montanist Schism c.156[2]
• Monarchianist schism c.100-200[3]
• Sabellianist/Patripassianist schism c.200[4]
• Donatist schism c.300-500[5]
• Arian Schism 325[6]
• Quartodecimanist schism 325[7]
• Macedonian Schism 342[8]
• Luciferian Schism 355[9]
• Appolinarist Schism 381[10]
• Collyridianist Schism c.376[11]
• Audianist Schism 380
• Nestorian Schism 431[12]
• Eutychian Schism 451[13]
• Monophysite Schism 451[13]
• Acacien Schism 484[14]
• Schism of the Three Chapters 553[15]
• Armenian Apostolic Schism 610[16]
• Monothelitist Schism 629[17]
• Maronite Schism[18]
• First Iconoclast Schism 787[19]
• Second Iconoclast Schism 814[19]
• The Great Schism of 1054[19]

Schisms in Catholicism pre-Reformation

• Bosnian Schism 1199[20]
• Waldensian Schism 1215.
• Western Schism 1378[21]

Reformation

• The Swiss Reformation 1516[22]
• The Anabaptist Reformation 1525[23]
• The English Reformation 1529[24]
• Schism of 1552
• Michael Servetus burned at the stake in 1553, considered founder of Unitarianism
• The Scottish Reformation 1560[25]
• The Dutch Reformation 1571
• The Jansenism schism 1643
• The Raskol schism 1653–66

Post Reformation schisms

• Melkite-Orthodox Schism 1724
• Orthodox Reformation 19th century
• Restorationist movement begins 1850s
• Bulgarian schism 1872
• Old Catholic Church schism 1879
• Liberal Catholic movement 1913
  • Liberal Catholic Church schism 1916
• True Orthodox movement 1920s
  • Old Calendarism schisms 1923
• Church of the East Schism 1964
• Montaner Schism 1967–69
• Continuing Anglican movement schisms begin since 1977
• Society of Saint Pius X Considered materially schismatic from 1988 until 2005, canonically irregular
• Second Moscow–Constantinople schism 1996
• Anglican realignment schisms begin since 2002
  • The separation of the Anglican Church in North America from the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada 2009[26]
• Community of the Lady of All Peoples Quebec Excluded from the Catholic Church in April 2007[27]
• Third Moscow–Constantinople schism 2018

See also

• Schism
• List of Christian denominations by number of members

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