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Old Believers believe these reforms to be heretical, believing the pre-reform rites to be the authentic practices of the early church. Old Believer theology is characterized by this strict adherence to pre-reform traditions, as well as the belief that the reformed church's heresy is coeval with the arrival of the Antichrist.
It is one of the two Old Believers churches that belong to the Belokrinitskaya Hierarchy - together with the Orthodox Old-Rite Church, sometimes also called Lipovan Orthodox Old-Rite Church. Drevlepravoslavie ("Old/Ancient Orthodoxy") was the common self-designation of the Old Believers and their cause since the 17th century.
Old Believer saints (5 P) Pages in category "Old Believers" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The first historical references to the Khlysty are found in the writings of the Old Believers, a Christian community which resisted the 17th-century reforms of the Russian State Church. The Old Believers condemned the Khlysty as heretics, and warnings about them can be found in letters dating from around the 1670s.
A Chasovennye chapel in Ulan-Ude, Transbaikalia. The Chasovennye people (also known as the Semeyskie or Semeiskie people east of Lake Baikal) are a Siberian sect of the Old Believers, Eastern Orthodox Christians who reject the reforms of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow in the 1650s and retain pre-Nikonian religious practices.
The Lykov family (Russian: Лыков, romanized: Lykov) is a Russian family of Old Believers. [1] The family of six spent 42 years in partial isolation from human society in an otherwise uninhabited upland of Abakan Range, in Tashtypsky District of Khakassia (southern Siberia). Since 1988, only one daughter, Agafia, survives. In a 2019 ...
The Russian Old Orthodox Church was formed from the groups of Old Believers who insisted on preserving the traditional church structure and hierarchy (as opposed to Bespopovtsy groups), but refused to accept the authority of Metropolitan Amvrosii (Popovitch) [2] who converted in 1846 and founded the Belokrinitskaya Hierarchy, due to some ...
The dyrniki, or "hole-worshippers", (Russian: Дырники) were a group of Old Believers who emerged in the 18th century as a radical branch of the netovshchina, or self-baptizers. They rejected the church reforms of Patriarch Nikon in the 17th century and considered themselves the only true Orthodox Christians. They had some distinctive ...