-
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...
- They have
become one of the
denominations among the
Bespopovtsy (the
priestless Old Believers). The
Fedoseevtsy movement,
founded by an ex-deacon Feodosy...
- a
number of Old
Believer Orthodox Christian communities as well. The
priestless congregation of the
Grebenstchikov House of
Prayer in Riga, affiliated...
-
declining number of
priests per parish, [and] the
increasing number of '
priestless'
parishes [...] In the
Catholic Church, the
total number of
priests has...
- the only one open to
Chinese nationals for
regular worship. Elsewhere,
priestless congregations continue to meet in
Northeast China (in
Heilongjiang and...
-
Great Lakes city, a
substantial number of
these Russian immigrants were
priestless (Bespopovtsy) Old Believers. In 1983, most of this
community united with...
