n. the formal separation of a church into two churches or the withdrawal of one group over doctrinal differences
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复数形式:schisms
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the seat of the papacy from 1309 to 1378 and the residence of antipopes during the Great Schism
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the council in 1414-1418 that succeeded in ending the Great Schism in the Roman Catholic Church
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the council in 869 that condemned Photius who had become the patriarch of Constantinople without approval from the Vatican, thereby precipitating the schism between the eastern and western churches n
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n a schismatic Christian religion in northern Africa from the 4th to the 7th century
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of or relating to or involved in or characteristic of schism
