Contemporary church in Split (6)
I believe the answer is:
recent
'contemporary' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'church in split' is the wordplay.
'church' becomes 'CE' (abbreviation for Church of England).
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'split' becomes 'rent' (past tense of 'rend' meaning to split).
'ce' going into 'rent' is 'RECENT'.
(Other definitions for recent that I've seen before include "Having happened lately" , "Not long ago, just a little while past" , "Not long ago, in the immediate past" , "Occurring not long ago" , "Latest - current" .)