Tikhon's remaining years were spent in consolidating his control of the church and resolving internal conflicts fomented by remnants of the Living Church faction amid severe political harassment.
The evangelical wing of the Church opposed the revision, which some low-church factions dubbed "popish".
Nevertheless, the Windsor report concluded that unless one party makes a big change, the church's factions may choose to "walk apart".
At the gathering, the group passed a resolution that called on Bishop Lee to appoint a reconciliation commission charged with keeping the church's factions talking, a diocese spokeswoman, Nancy Jenkins, said.
After his death, four years later, the church split into several factions.
They, too, are split into rival factions, many church experts say, between those loyal to the secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, and the dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Angelo Sodano.
1840 also saw the Methodist church split into two factions, Canadian Methodists and British Wesleyans.
Then in the 16th century CE the Christian Church split into many factions during the Reformation, a period of intense theological and military conflict, between Catholics and Protestants and among different groups of Protestants, and few people were safe from persecution.
The Catholic Worker Movement is a radical, sometimes paradoxical faction of church activists founded by the journalist, Catholic convert and social activist Dorothy Day.
While plenty of time has been spent on mega-churches and the various factions of the religious right, very little work has been done on elite manifestations of religion-related power.
Doctrinally conservative but personally sensitive and humane, he has been able to empathise with all the contending factions in the church's battles over touchstone issues.
