great schism

English Thesaurus

1. the period from 1378 to 1417 during which there were two papacies in the Roman Catholic Church, one in Rome and one in Avignon (noun.time)

instance hypernym	:	schism,
definition	:	the formal separation of a church into two churches or the withdrawal of one group over doctrinal differences (noun.event)

instance hypernym	:	period, period of time, time period,
definition	:	an amount of time (noun.time)

domain category	:	church of rome, roman catholic, roman catholic church, roman church, western church,
definition	:	the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy (noun.group)