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Nothing can "split" the Catholic Church as it is divinely established and guarded. However, there have been two famous cases that tried: the Western Schism when there was a pope or antipope in Avignon and Rome; and the Eastern Schism when the Orthodox left the Catholic Church.

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The Protestant Reformation is the movement that split the Western church. It was an attempt to reform the Catholic church.

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