Jesuit Church

What if the Jesuits splitted from the Catholic Church and formed a seperate branch of Christianity ? Could it have happened ?
 
Giving that the whole point of Jesuists is about being a Catholic order that have a special vow of obedience to the Pope...
 
The conflicts and mistrust were, as I understand it, largely on the part of secular rulers and some Church conservatives; the Iberians fought the Jesuits for mission lands in South America, and some European rulers ended up distrusting the order.

But the Jesuits becoming their own church makes no sense. Ignatius of Loyola, the greatest counter-revolutionary of all time, set out to restore Catholicism in Europe and spread the Catholic gospel abroad; to separate from the Church is to be no better than Protestants.
 

Kosta

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What if the Jesuits splitted from the Catholic Church and formed a separate branch of Christianity ? Could it have happened ?

The founder, Ignatius of Loyola, was accused of being a member of a sect called 'Los Alumbrados,' the "illumined ones". Perhaps you could look into Ignatius actually being a member of said sect, and his order is allowed to survive but eventually advocates such heretical ideas that it has to be suppressed and its members finally consider itself a different faith community from the rest of the Latins?
 
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