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Old Believers arrived in Alaska, US, in the second half of the 20th century, helping to revive a shrinking Orthodox population. [46] Old Believers from Russia fled to Swedish Estonia and Livonia in the end of the 17th century. Currently, there are 2,605 Old Believers in Estonia according to the 2011 census.
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. ...
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.
Lipovan Orthodox Old-Rite Church with the center in Brăila, Romania; unites the Old Believers of the Belokrinitskaya Hierarchy in Romania, and diaspora Neokruzhniki (Non-Encyclicalists) hierarchy - arose as a result of the split that began after the release of the "Encyclical" of 1862; it was suppressed in Soviet times.
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.
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 ...
Among the Old Believers the usual beginning is preceded by the following, known as the "Prayer of the Publican": God be merciful to me a sinner. (After which all make a bow.) Thou hast created me; Lord, have mercy on me. (Bow.) I have sinned immeasurably; Lord, forgive me. (Bow.) Some say an alternate version of the last prayer:
Old Believers in Russian North. Late 19th - early 20th century. Bespopovtsy (Russian: беспоповцы, IPA: [bʲɪspɐˈpoftsɨ], lit. 'priestless ones') are a Christian group based in Russia. They are Priestless Old Believers that reject Nikonite priests. They are one of the two major strains of Old Believers.