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Old Believers

Old Believers or Old Ritualists (Russian: староверы, romanized: starovery or старообрядцы, staroobryadtsy) is the common term for numerous religious communities that maintain the old liturgical and ritual practices of the Russian Orthodox Church, as they were before the reforms of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow between 1653 and 1656. The old rite and its…

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Bezpopovtsy
Pomorian Old-Orthodox Church · Old-Pomorian (Fedoseean) Old-Orthodox Church
Founder
Anti-reform dissenters
Language
Russian, Church Slavonic
Liturgy
Traditional Russian variation of Byzantine Rite
Origin
early 1700s Tsardom of Russia
Other names
Old Ritualists, Old Orthodox

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related to Distribution · 30
Old Believers → Baltic, Don Cossacks, Flights, In Moscow, Karelia, Kerzhenets, Latvia, Moscow, New, Nizhny Novgorod, Old Believer, Old Rite, Polish-Lithuanian, Prayer, Riga, Rogozhskoye Cemetery, Romania, Russia, Russian Empire, Samara
related to Traditionalism · 25
Old Believers → Byzantine, Catholics, Christianity, Eastern Europe, European, Even, Great, It, Julian, Last Rome, Moscow, Old Belief, Old Believer, Old Muscovite, Orthodox, Peter, Russia, Russian, The, Third
related to 1917–present · 22
Old Believers → After, Ambrose, Belokrinitsian, Bishop Nikola Pozdnev, Bolshevik, In, Moscow, October Revolution, Patriarch, Renovationists, ROC, Russian Old-Orthodox Church, Russian Orthodox Church, Schism, Several, Since, Soviet Union, The, The Communists, Thus
related to Apocalypticism · 19
Old Believers → Antichrist, Armageddon, Christian, Christianity, Great, Last Judgment, Nikon, Nikon's, Nikonian, Old Belief, Peter, Russian, Satan's, The, There, These, This, Those, Tsar Alexis
related to Priestly · 19
Old Believers → Antichrist, Avvakum, Avvakum's, Bishop Paul, Deaconites, Historical, Kolomna, Lacking, Nikon, Nikon's, No, Old Believer, Onufrites, Schism, Sophontites, The, Their, They, While
related to The long 19th century · 17
Old Believers → Alexander, Emperor, Europe, Following, Government, In, Moscow Theodosian, Napoleonic Wars, No, None, Old Believer, Orthodoxy, Russia, Schismatic Affairs, Secret Committee, The, While
related to Old Rite · 16
Old Believers → Alleluia, Divine Liturgy, Greek, Greek Orthodox Churches, Instituted, It, Jesus Christ, Nikonian, Orthodox, Orthodox Church, Patriarch Nikon, Russian, Russian Orthodox Church, Some, The, While Old Belief
related to Piety · 14
Old Believers → Christianity, Church, Church Slavonic, Community, God's, In, Old Believer, Religious, Secular, Separate, Some, The, They, Those
related to External links · 11
Old Believers → Archived, Church, Lithuania, March, Media, North America, Pomorian Old-Orthodox Church, Russian, Wayback Machine, Wikimedia CommonsRussian Orthodox Old-Rite, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
related to Tolerance · 11
Old Believers → Antichrist, Boyarina Morozova, Dissenter, If, In, Loyal, Peter, Siberia, Tara, The Leksa, Vyg

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old believers church russian communities priestly state rite new religious russia moscow believer priestless orthodox antichrist century belief official community

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Old BelieversBezpopovtsyPomorian Old-Orthodox Church1.00infobox
Old BelieversBezpopovtsyOld-Pomorian (Fedoseean) Old-Orthodox Church1.00infobox
Old BelieversFounderAnti-reform dissenters1.00infobox
Old BelieversLanguageRussian, Church Slavonic1.00infobox
Old BelieversLiturgyTraditional Russian variation of Byzantine Rite1.00infobox
Old BelieversOriginearly 1700s Tsardom of Russia1.00infobox
Old BelieversOther namesOld Ritualists, Old Orthodox1.00infobox
Old BelieversPopovtsyRussian Orthodox Old-Rite Church1.00infobox
Old BelieversPopovtsyRussian Old-Orthodox Church1.00infobox
Old BelieversPopovtsyLipovan Orthodox Old-Rite Church1.00infobox
Old BelieversPopovtsyOld-Orthodox Church of Ukraine1.00infobox
Old BelieversPopovtsyEdinoverie1.00infobox
Old BelieversRegionformer USSR, Western disapora1.00infobox
Old BelieversSeparated fromRussian Orthodox Church1.00infobox
Old BelieversTypeRussian Orthodoxy1.00infobox

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