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Great Schism   /greɪt skˈɪzəm/   Listen
Great Schism

noun
1.
The period from 1378 to 1417 during which there were two papacies in the Roman Catholic Church, one in Rome and one in Avignon.





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"Great schism" Quotes from Famous Books



... churches are those usually included in this Communion. But in strictness, the term "Eastern" or "Oriental Church" is applied only to the Graeco-Russian Church in communion with the Patriarch of {94} Constantinople. The great Schism whereby the communion between the East and the West was broken took ...
— The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia • William James Miller
... was natural, a great schism in the different parties, which broke out at a meeting at the Fountain Tavern, on the 12th of February, where the Duke of Argyll declared himself in opposition to the new government, upon the ground of the unjust exclusion of the Tories. The Duke of Argyll subsequently relented, and ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 1 • Horace Walpole


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