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*1582 Institution of [[Gregorian Calendar]].
*1596 [[Union of Brest-Litovsk]], creation of the Unia (Eastern/Byzantine/Greek Catholics).
*1611 [[w:Gallicanism|Gallican]] French theologian [http://www.answers.com/topic/edmond-richer Edmund Richer ] (1559-1631) , author of ''De ecclesiastica et politica potestate,'' held the view that [[w:Conciliarism|ecclesiastical councils]], not the papacy, was the method by which doctrinal truth was established, but his work was censured at the Council of Aix-en-Provence in 1612; this ‘richérisme’ strongly influenced 18th century Jansenism.
*1724 [[Melkite Greek Catholic Church|Melkite Schism]], in which many [[Church of Antioch|Antiochian Orthodox]] become Greek Catholics.
*1763 The [[w:Jansenism|Jansenist]] Provincial Council of Utrecht, seed of the future [[w:Old Catholic Church|Old Catholic]] movements, affirmed every Roman Catholic dogma and pronounced the Orthodox Faith to be schismatic and false, signalling not so much a rapprochement with Orthodoxy, but rather a refusal to drift yet further from her, as much of the Roman fold was doing.
