-
Russian Church,
while the
Bespopovtsy reject any
priest ordained after Nikonite reforms. The
widespread ****cution of Old
Believers came to an end with...
-
Nikonites, also
known as Nikonians, are
followers of the main
current of the
Russian Orthodox Church,
which accepted the
reforms undertaken during the...
-
Christian group based in Russia. They are
Priestless Old
Believers that
reject Nikonite priests. They are one of the two
major strains of Old Believers. After...
- (as
opposed to the two-finger sign of the "Old Rite"), as well as
other Nikonite reforms (which
alternated certain previous Russian practices to conform...
-
Boyaryna Morozova by
Vasily Surikov is
depicting Morozova's
arrest by the
Nikonites in 1671. As an Old Believer, she
holds two fingers,
rather than three...
- Popovtsy,
meaning "priested ones", as they
accept clergymen ordained by the
Nikonite Russian Orthodox Church but
reject the church's authority;
those who preserve...
- Old
Believers Orthodox by confession. This
confession is the
result of
Nikonite Reform. In 1652, Nikon, the
Patriarch of
Russian Orthodox Church, initiated...
