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Hector,
Worshiping differently is not the same as schism. I am not aware of any schism between the Ascetics and the "Roman Catholics". There was a schism between the Coptic Church, which probably had, coincidentally, the bulk of the Ascetics, and the then-united Catholic/Eastern Orthodox Church around 451 A.D. with their rejection of the Council of Chalcedon.
It had to do with disagreements over expressing the nature of Christ and not with worship, opulence, asceticism, or anything else.
There was an earlier schism in 431 A.D. with the Assyrian Church of the East (the so-called Nestorians). But there have been schisms in the Church from the beginning, although those are the biggest earlier ones if you reckon Arianism, not as a schism, but as a heresy (325 A.D.).
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