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
The society's superior-general, Father Davide Pagliarani, said in a statement published Tuesday that the group would go ahead with the consecrations and insisted it was "neither schismatic nor hostile to the Church".
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
His support of the schismatic pope Clement VII. at Avignon was doubtless due to political considerations, as favouring the independence of the Gallican church.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various
