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

Notwithstanding the protests of the Protestant party, it was decreed that if such an event should occur the seceder could claim his own personal property, but not the property attached to his office.

From History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 1 by MacCaffrey, James

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

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

I shouldn't have been at all sorry if he had been the seceder; he's bored terribly, I know, yet he naturally feels bound to keep his place.

From Thyrza by Gissing, George