Schisms from the Eastern Orthodox Church

1650s–1660s Russian Orthodox schism creating the Old Believers

The Sacred Patriarchal and Stauropegic Monastery Esphigmenou () is an Eastern Orthodox monastery dedicated to the Ascension of Christ in the monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece. It is built next to the sea at the northern part of the Athonite peninsula. Located near the Hilandar monastery, it is the northernmost of all Athonite monasteries.

ongoing split between the Eastern Orthodox patriarchates of Moscow and Constantinople

Serbian clergyman and former Bishop of the Eparchy of Raška and Prizren (1935–2020)

archbishop

a problem arising when multiple people claim the title of emperor

Serbian Orthodox bishop