In dramatic fashion, Carroll sweeps into the Baptist march through the centuries numerous dissenting, heretical, and schismatic groups from the second through the sixteenth centuries: the Cathari, the Novationists, the Donatists, the Paulicians, the Acephali, the Paternines, the Petrobrusiani, the Henricians, the Arnoldists, the Albigenses, the Waldensians, the Lollards, the Anabaptists, and on and on. (firstthings.com)
Threats just as serious to the vitality of Christendom came from within, from a succession of schismatic and heretical movements. (religion-online.org)
At Corinth there have been schismatic tendencies which have resulted in the deposition of some of the presbyters. (religion-online.org)