seceder

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One prominent seceder, Oxford Researcher John Roche, has collected 1,500 case histories of disenchanted Opus members that he hopes to present to John Paul this year.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet the church at Hobart Town, founded by a seceder, was under his care.

From The History of Tasmania, Volume I by West, John

He was engaged afterwards in controversy with George Keith, a seceder from the Friends. 

From The History of Thomas Ellwood Written By Himself by Ellwood, Thomas

Although some of these rites and ceremonies have been revealed by apostates, yet there are others of such a character that even the bitterest seceder from the church would not dare unfold them.

From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 5 by Various

He became chaplain to Charles II., but the Act of Uniformity again made him a seceder.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph