Old Believers
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title:
Old Believers
text:
Old Believers, also called Old Ritualists, are Eastern Orthodox Christians who maintain the liturgical and ritual practices of the Russian Orthodox Church as they were before the reforms of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow between 1652 and 1666. Resisting the accommodation of Russian piety to the contemporary forms of Greek Orthodox worship, these Christians were anathematized, together with their ritual, in a Synod of 1666–67, producing a division in Eastern Europe between the Old Believers and those
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Russian religious dissenters
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Believers
date created:
2003-05-17T19:29:47Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T14:27:17Z
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