Important leaders including William Marks and Aaron Smith (former leader of a Strangite schismatic group) joined the movement.

He came into conflict with the popes of his time and seems to have headed a schismatic group as a rival bishop of Rome.

There has been a proliferation of small, usually Christian-linked schismatic religious groups since the 1994 genocide, as well as substantial conversion to Islam.

Some Russian people are Old Believers: a relatively small schismatic group of the Russian Orthodoxy that rejected the liturgical reforms introduced in the 17th century.

The grace received in baptism is believed to operate ex opere operato and is therefore considered valid even if administered in heretical or schismatic groups.

Besides these the sect has produced a number of schismatic groups.

While most Covenant-breakers are involved in schismatic groups, that is not always the case.

Even the extreme, and already almost schismatic, group of neo-traditionalists led by Archbishop Lefebvre from Econe was very nearly reconciled.

To Bahá'ís, except for certain schismatic groups, he is the first and last Guardian.

Located adjacent to the famous St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery, the premises had been in the use of a schismatic group.