This year's bishops' council voted to excommunicate Metropolitan Filaret of Kiev, who has set up a schismatic church in Ukraine one of several that now battle for that nation's souls.
Considering how schismatic the war felt then, and how badly it has gone since, it has made eerily little difference to Britain.That is partly because it was never as divisive in Parliament as it was in the country.
That question was at the heart of the long 19th-century arguments among Scotland's schismatic pedants.Many will regard this as a less-than-enticing topic, and some may rate unionism not much racier.
This and her growing competence in political scheming have helped Mrs Gandhi impose discipline within her schismatic party.
Britain's history, like its political system, is different from America's: in particular, race is not the schismatic issue in Britain that slavery and segregation make it in America.
The leaders of the Macedonian Orthodox Church view Jovan as a schismatic - and that in turn is how he, and world Orthodoxy, view them.Nothing unusual about all that.
The forest also provided shelter during the 17th century to the schismatic Old Believers when they were cast out of the mainstream church and society.The exodus north meant that Russian culture evolved independently during this period, cut off from the rest of a Christian world that had just rediscovered the Greek philosophers.
Amid the in-fighting, floor-crossing and Labour domination, two schismatic events stand out.
Montanism, a 2nd century schismatic movement of Christianity, began in Phrygia (modern Turkey).
Pope Julius's severe illness prompted Maximilian to consider accepting the office of pope, which the schismatic Council of Pisa offered him.
A schismatic pope could no longer help France much; rival popes could hardly promote peace between their political supporters.
