schism

IPA: skˈɪzʌm

A split or separation within a group or organization, typically caused by discord.
(religion) A formal division or split within a religious body.
(Catholicism) a split within Christianity whereby a group no longer recognizes the Bishop of Rome as the head of the Church, but shares essentially the same beliefs with the Church of Rome. In other words, a political split without the introduction of heresy.

Examples of "schism" in Sentences

In fact, the Catholic/Orthodox schism is rather the older schism.
Hmmm ¦ sorta makes ya wonder if maybe ideological schism is as basic to human nature as ideology, eh?
Hmmm … sorta makes ya wonder if maybe ideological schism is as basic to human nature as ideology, eh?
We are a group of Episcopalians committed to unity, faith, and charity without schism from the Episcopal Church.
But a prospective Taliban/AQ schism is worth a hell of a lot, because the Taliban has never been the real target.
Let others, under pretence of a dread of what they call schism, run back into antichris - tian errors and heresies.
The story of a liberal technocrat jumping into a generational schism is a microcosm of what Fitzgibbonwants to do in Olympia.
Newman realised that he had to find an answer to the pressing question: was his position wrong or was the church of England in schism?
The resistance which followed, both in Bombay and in other parts of India has uniformly been called the "Goan or Indo-Portuguese Schism" by writers outside the Padroado party; and the term schism occurs frequently in the pronouncements of the Holy See; but the Padroadists themselves have always resented this title on the ground that the fault lay with the