Patriarch Nikon (left) leads the revision of the church service books, with Tsar Alexei seated on the throne. Nikon's reforms were the catalyst for the church schism. Painting by Aleksey Kivshenko.
John Chrysostom (344-407). This liturgy is similar if not identical to the liturgy used by the Orthodox churches. After the schism between the churches in Rome and Constantinople in 1054 ...
A religious schism has turned deadly in Nigeria ... of the new Global Methodist Church by breakaway conservative churches. According to the news service, a United Methodist church member was ...