Remember Jesus never gave us a 3-ring binder on how to set up the church, and even with Paul’s exhortation in his letters, Christians will differ on points of theology which can lead to deep divisions. The first major church division is known as “the Great Schism” and happened on July 16, 1054 when the churches of Rome and Constantinople split from each other and formed what we today call the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. In 1968, the two churches came together for the first time and apologized for the split (which you can see in this picture).
