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Old Believer Church

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Old Believer Church
Old Believer Church
Old Believer Church
Old Believer Church
Old Believer Church
Address:
Lohu 2, Mustvee, 49604 Ju00F5geva maakond, Estonia

In Eastern Orthodox church history especially within Russian Orthodox Church, the Old Believers or Old Ritualists are Eastern Orthodox Christians who maintain the liturgical and ritual practices of the Eastern Orthodox Church as they existed prior to 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 1666–1667, producing a division in Eastern Europe between the Old Believers and those who followed the state church in its condemnation of the Old Rite. Russian speakers refer to the schism itself as raskol , etymologically indicating a cleaving-apart.
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