schismatic
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In response, the Society's total of six bishops were excommunicated - and, in a highly unusual move, the Vatican said all the group's lay members "are to be considered schismatic and excommunicated".
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Pope Leo wrote Monday in a letter to the society, calling it a "schismatic act".
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
The Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which didn’t recognize the authority of the Russian church and had been regarded as schismatic, was granted full recognition in 2018 by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Orthodoxy’s top authority.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2023
Are there alternatives to Burke’s tenuous position or the schismatic plunge?
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2019
The conviction that the schismatic Pascal was a mere tool of the Emperor, and that this assembly was composed of bishops who were aliens to the Church, wounded all their preconceived ideas.
From Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. by Conrad von Bolanden
