First, during the attempts to end the Great Schism, when rival popes were established at Avignon and Rome, King Charles VI, following a national synod of bishops in 1398, decided to withdraw obedience from Benedict XIII, the pope of Avignon, without recognizing Boniface IX at Rome because he was no longer functioning for the common good of the people.
The Humane Society was established in 1954 as a result of a schism within the American Humane Association, which was established in 1877 as a loose national federation, based in Denver, of animal rescue groups.
Nevertheless, the conflict between the Hasidim and the "Opponents" (Mitnaggedim) did not finally degenerate into schism; after three generations, a tacit compromise was established between the two tendencies—Hasidic and Mitnaggedic though awareness of their differences was never erased.
God commands unity, and schism is a sin where there is an established Church.
Then there's the wider background: the widening schism between the country's growing protest movement and established political parties.
He was subsequently called a heretic for his opposition to Evangelicalism, which stressed established beliefs, and he was held responsible by some for the Quaker schism of 1827 28.
Kings built, maintained, and endowed many shrines and monasteries, and they intervened to establish order and prevent schism within the Buddhist community.
While keeping alive their prayer for an eventual healing of the schism with the Latin Church, some of the Orthodox churches have established communion with Anglicanism and with the Old Catholic Church and have participated in the conferences and organizations of the World Council of Churches.
As suffragists and suffragettes celebrated and prepared for its imminent passage, a new schism erupted: should women's political organisations join forces with those established by men?
In the early church, "schism" was used to describe those groups that broke with the church and established rival churches.
Faced by the mortal challenge to the papacy emanating from Protestantism, and fearing schism due to several stormy conclaves in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, Gregory XV established this procedure to prevent any cardinal from casting the deciding vote for himself.
