Old Believers, also called Old Ritualists, are Eastern Orthodox Christians who maintain the liturgical and ritual practices of the Russian Orthodox Church...
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The Christian Union of Latvian Orthodox, generally known as the Old Believers (Latvian: Vecticībnieki), was a political party in Latvia in the inter-war...
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institutionally the Ancient Russian Ynglist Church of the Orthodox Old Believers–Ynglings (Древнерусская Инглиистическая Церковь Православных Староверов–Инглингов...
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Old Believers is the 2012 album release by Cory Chisel and The Wandering Sons. "Ultratop.be – Cory Chisel And The Wandering Sons – Old Believers" (in Dutch)...
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Schism of the Russian Church (redirect from Schism of Old Believers)
splitting of the Russian Orthodox Church into an official church and the Old Believers movement in the 1600s. It was triggered by the reforms of Patriarch...
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Antichrist (section Old Believers)
Church during the second half of the 17th century, a large number of Old Believers held that Peter the Great, the Tsar of the Russian Empire until his...
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the Old Believers movement. Across Russia, Old Believers were harshly persecuted. One such old believer was Avvakum "the leader of the old Believers". Avvakum...
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Seraphim of Sarov (section Seraphim and Old Believers)
hand, and in some cases even in old Russian, Old-Believers-style monastic garments (with a peculiar klobuk, and an old-fashioned cast bronze cross), as...
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Alaskan Russians (section Old Believers in Nikolaevsk)
refer to Alaskan Creole people, an ethnic group native to Alaska; or Old Believers, a community of religious Russians who settled in Alaska's Kenai Peninsula...
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Religion in Russia (section Old Believers)
Russian Orthodox Church, while small minorities were Old Believers and Orthodox Christian believers who either did not belong to any church or belonged...
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Old Believers burned themselves to death in an act known as "fire baptism". This act took place over several decades. At least 20,000 Old Believers would...
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Sign of the cross (section Old Believers)
with Greek customs), were among the reasons for the schism with the Old Believers whose congregations continue to use the two-finger sign of the cross...
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Eastern Orthodox Church (section Old Believers)
of the latter to the hostile Soviet regime. Another group called the Old Believers, separated in 1666 from the official Russian Orthodox Church as a protest...
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Christianity in Russia (section Old Believers)
metropolitanates. There are from 500,000 to one million Old Believers, who represent an older form of Russian Orthodox Christianity, and who separated...
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Edinoverie (category Old Believer movement)
Thus, they are often designated "Old Ritualists" (Russian: старообря́дцы, staroobryadtsy), as opposed to "Old Believers". The Russian word edinoverie may...
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Lykov family (category Old Believers)
Lykov family (Russian: Лыков, romanized: Lykov) is a Russian family of Old Believers. The family of six spent 42 years in partial isolation from human society...
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The Old Believer is the third studio album by American band The Atlas Moth. It was released on June 10, 2014 under Profound Lore Records. "The Old Believer...
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Православная Старообрядческая Церковь) is an Eastern Orthodox Church of the Old Believers tradition, which rejected the liturgical and canonical reforms of Patriarch...
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Vladimir Stasov. It concerns the rebellion of Prince Ivan Khovansky, the Old Believers, and the Muscovite Streltsy against the regent Sofia Alekseyevna and...
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Avvakum (category Old Believer saints)
Orthodox Church. His autobiography and letters to the tsar and other Old Believers such as Feodosia Morozova are considered masterpieces of 17th-century...
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Slavic paganism (redirect from Old Slavic religion)
of the Old Believers, in the broadest meaning of the term—including a variety of folk religions—pointed out by Bernshtam, and these Old Believers were a...
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Popovtsy (category Old Believer movement)
originated in the 17th century. They were one of the two main factions of Old Believers, along with the Bezpopovtsy ("priestless ones"). After the reforms of...
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Agafia Lykova (category Old Believers)
Lykova (Russian: Агафья Карповна Лыкова; born 17 April 1944) is a Russian Old Believer, part of the Lykov family, who has lived alone in the taiga for most...
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Lipovans (category Old Believers)
romanized: Lypovany; Bulgarian: Липованци, romanized: Lipovantsi) are ethnic Russian Old Believers living in Romania, Ukraine, Moldova and Bulgaria who settled in the...
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church and a sect that called themselves the Old Believers, Catherine passed an act that allowed Old Believers to practice their faith openly without interference...
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a series of reforms led to a schism in the Russian Church, as the Old Believers opposed the changes. The ROC currently claims exclusive jurisdiction...
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Usual beginning (section Old Believers)
down before Christ Himself, our King and our God. (Bow.) Among the Old Believers the usual beginning is preceded by the following, known as the "Prayer...
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equalisation of all religions. He also put an end to the persecution of the Old Believers. Although he is mostly criticised for forming an alliance with Prussia...
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(23.8%), of which 13.8% are Russian Orthodox Christians and 10.0% are Old Believers. As of 2020, the region's population was 255,968. The region has a large...
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Bespopovtsy (category Old Believer movement)
Russia. They are Priestless Old Believers that reject Nikonite priests. They are one of the two major strains of Old Believers. After the reforms of Patriarch...
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