Definition of Priestless. Meaning of Priestless. Synonyms of Priestless

- Believers into the Popovtsy (the priested ones) and the Bespopovtsy (the priestless ones); the Popovtsy accept priests ordained by the reformed Russian Church...
- беспоповцы, IPA: [bʲɪspɐˈpoftsɨ], lit. 'priestless ones') are a Christian group based in Russia. They are Priestless Old Believers that reject Nikonite priests...
- the two main factions of Old Believers, along with the Bezpopovtsy ("priestless ones"). After the reforms of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow in the 1650s, many...
- Danilovtsy, Danilov's confession, or simply as Pomorians, is a branch of the priestless faction of the Old Believers, born of a schism within the Russian Orthodox...
- another early Christian heresy. In Eastern Orthodoxy, the Bezpopovtsy (priestless) strain of Old Believers believed that because the Russian bishops acquiesced...
- Although they once allowed priesthood, they eventually joined other priestless (Bezpopovtsy) movements and outlawed priesthood and sacraments beyond...
- They have become one of the denominations among the Bespopovtsy (the priestless Old Believers). The Fedoseevtsy movement, founded by an ex-deacon Feodosy...
- declining number of priests per parish, [and] the increasing number of 'priestless' parishes [...] In the Catholic Church, the total number of priests has...
- a number of Old Believer Orthodox Christian communities as well. The priestless congregation of the Grebenstchikov House of Prayer in Riga, affiliated...
- the only one open to Chinese nationals for regular worship. Elsewhere, priestless congregations continue to meet in Northeast China (in Heilongjiang and...