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Main Christian denominations
                       - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - /== Restoriationism
                     /    (Claim of separate lineage)         /
                                                          /======= Protestanism
                   /                                     /
                                     Reformation        /========= Anglicanism
                 /                   (16th century) -> /
Early                  Great Schism       /=======================  (Western Rites)
Christianity   /       (11th century) -> /        | <- "Unia"      Roman Catholicism
========================================{      /==================  (Eastern Rites)
    Council of -> \  \ <- Council of     \    /
    Ephesus (413)  \  \   Chalcedon (451) \======================= Eastern Orthodoxy
                    \  \
                     \  \========================================= Oriental Orthodoxy
                      \
                       \========================================== Nestorianism

Important sub-denominations: Lutheranism, Baptism, Latter Day Saints (Mormonism), Jehovah's Witnesses,
Society of Friends (Quakerism)