Schisms in Christianity in Two Charts

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ 

The following are two charts on the two main periods of schism in Christianity.  Some of the most famous schisms of the early Church include the Marcionist schism; the Gnostic schism; the Montanist schism; the schism of Monarchianism; the various episodes with the Antipopes; the Donatist schism, beginning in 311 CE; the schism with Arianism and Quartodecimanism at the First Council of Nicaea in 325 CE; the Nestorian schism, after the First Council of Ephesus in 431 CE, between Western Christianity and Nestorianism; the Oriental Orthodox schism and rejection of the Council of Chalcedon, around 451 CE; the Acacian schism from 484 to 519 CE; the schism of the Armenian Orthodox in 491 CE; and the Great Schism of 1054 CE. 

The second era of if schism began with the Lollardy movement in the 1350s.  Then came the period of the Three Popes from 1378 to 1417 CE: Roman Pope Gregory XII, Avignon Pope Benedict XIII, and Pisan Pope John XXIII.  These political shenanigans were resolved at Council of Constance.  The Swiss Reformation began in 1516.  The Protestant Reformation proper began in 1517.  And then there were the Anabaptist, circa. 1525; the English Reformation beginning in 1529; the founder of Unitarianism, Michael Servetus being burned at the stake in 1553 which accelerated the schism; the Scottish Reformation in 1560; the Dutch Reformation in 1571; Socinianism in 1605; the Jansenist schism of 1643; and the Old Believers and Raskol for schism within the Russian Orthodox Church in 1666.





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