Great Schism Definition

Great Schism Sentence Examples

• Negotiations for the healing of the Great Schism were without result.

• When put into execution the project produced in the Russian Church a great schism and numerous fantastic sects.

• The papacy, which had been so fundamentally shaken by the great schism of the West, came through this trial victorious.

• The result was a great schism among the Jews of Spain and southern France, and a new impulse was given to the study of philosophy by the unauthorized interference of the Spanish rabbis.

• Except in connexion with the Pisan question the republic had taken no definite side in the great schism which had divided The the church since 1378, but in 1408 she appealed both council to Pope Gregory XII.