Schism  

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In religion:

  • Schism (religion), a division or a split.
  • East-West Schism or The Great Schism, the split between the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church in the eleventh century

Etymology

From Old French cisme or scisme, from Ancient Greek σχίσμα (skhisma, “division”), from σχίζω (skhizō, “I split”).

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