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====Within Orthodoxy====
====Roman Catholic====
====Eastern Catholic Churches====The Vatican's [[w:Annuario Pontificio|Annuario Pontificio]] gives the following list of 22 Eastern Catholic Churches and of countries (or other political areas, consisting of more than country) in which they possess an episcopal ecclesiastical jurisdiction (date of union or foundation in parenthesis):
=====Alexandrian liturgical tradition=====
=====Antiochian (West-Syrian) liturgical tradition=====
=====Chaldean or East Syrian liturgical tradition=====
=====Armenian liturgical tradition=====
=====Byzantine (Constantinopolitan) liturgical tradition=====
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*1054 [[Great Schism|Great Schism between East and West]], generally regarded as having been completed by the act of the Fourth Crusade in 1204.
*1265-1310 Arsenite Schism.
*ca.1666-67 [[Old Believers]] became separated after 1666-1667 from the hierarchy of the Church of Russia as a protest against church reforms introduced by Patriarch Nikon of Moscow.
*1990 Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kiev Patriarchate (UOC-KP).
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*1378-1417 [[w:Western Schism|Western Great Schism]] ensues, including simultaneous reign of three Popes of Rome.
*1723 The [[w:Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands|Church of Holland]], (or [[w:Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands|Church of Utrecht]]) broke with Rome under its own archbishop and hierarchy, becoming the mother church of the Old Catholic Churches.
*1957 The "[[w:Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association|Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association]]" (the official state-approved Church) is established by the People's Republic of China's Religious Affairs Bureau, to exercise state supervision over mainland China's Catholics; the unofficial (Papal) Church continues function as a separate entity.
:#[[w:Coptic Catholic Church|Coptic Catholic Church]] (patriarchate): Egypt (1741)
:#[[w:Ethiopian Catholic Church|Ethiopian Catholic Church]] (metropolia): Ethiopia, Eritrea (1846)
:#[[w:Maronite Church|Maronite Church]] (patriarchate): Lebanon, Cyprus, Jordan, Israel, Palestinian Authority, Egypt, Syria, Argentina, Brazil, United States, Australia, Canada, Mexico (union re-affirmed 1182)
::*685 John Maron elected first Maronite patriarch, founding the Maronite Catholic Church, which embraced Monothelitism, rejected the teaching of the Fifth Ecumenical Council, and separated from the Orthodox Church.
::*1930 Some of the New Party (Puthankuttukar), joined the Catholic Communion on on September 20, 1930 as the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church.
:#[[w:Chaldean Catholic Church|Chaldean Catholic Church]] (patriarchate): Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Turkey, United States (1692)
:#[[w:Syro-Malabar Catholic Church|Syro-Malabar Church]] (major archiepiscopate): India, Middle East, Europe and America (date disputed)
::*1663 A large section of the Old Party (Pazhayakuttukur) cut its ancient ties with the churches in Persia and joined the Catholic Communion in 1663 AD with the ordination of Chandy Bishop. This section is presently known as Syro-Malabar Church.
:#[[w:Armenian Catholic Church|Armenian Catholic Church]] (patriarchate): Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Jordan, Palestinian Authority, Ukraine, France, Greece, Latin America, Argentina, Romania, United States, Canada, Eastern Europe (1742)
:#[[w:Albanian Greek-Catholic Church|Albanian Greek Catholic Church]] (apostolic administration): Albania (1628).
:#[[w:Belarusian Greek Catholic Church|Belarusian Greek Catholic Church]] (no established hierarchy at present): Belarus (1596).
