himself the head of the new Church of England, or Anglicanism. These initial schisms from Rome were, however, only the beginning of a tremendous splintering that was still to come in the West. Without agreement as to what was the full and original Faith of the Church, unity of belief and practice was never again realized. Instead, even greater division occurred. From the original schism of Luther eventually came four separate Lutheran groups called “synods,” and half-a-dozen smaller groups as well.