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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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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Old Believers | Bezpopovtsy | Pomorian Old-Orthodox Church | 1.00 | infobox |
| Old Believers | Bezpopovtsy | Old-Pomorian (Fedoseean) Old-Orthodox Church | 1.00 | infobox |
| Old Believers | Founder | Anti-reform dissenters | 1.00 | infobox |
| Old Believers | Language | Russian, Church Slavonic | 1.00 | infobox |
| Old Believers | Liturgy | Traditional Russian variation of Byzantine Rite | 1.00 | infobox |
| Old Believers | Origin | early 1700s Tsardom of Russia | 1.00 | infobox |
| Old Believers | Other names | Old Ritualists, Old Orthodox | 1.00 | infobox |
| Old Believers | Popovtsy | Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church | 1.00 | infobox |
| Old Believers | Popovtsy | Russian Old-Orthodox Church | 1.00 | infobox |
| Old Believers | Popovtsy | Lipovan Orthodox Old-Rite Church | 1.00 | infobox |
| Old Believers | Popovtsy | Old-Orthodox Church of Ukraine | 1.00 | infobox |
| Old Believers | Popovtsy | Edinoverie | 1.00 | infobox |
| Old Believers | Region | former USSR, Western disapora | 1.00 | infobox |
| Old Believers | Separated from | Russian Orthodox Church | 1.00 | infobox |
| Old Believers | Type | Russian Orthodoxy | 1.00 | infobox |
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