Old Believers

This source names Old Believers directly: "A combined citation covering Encyclopaedia Britannica's biographical entry on Avvakum Petrovich and Columbia University Press's published English edition of The Life Written by Himself."

This source names Old Believers directly: "Eugene Clay's "Old Believers" entry in the Encyclopedia of World Cultures, republished on Encyclopedia.com and read 2026-08-16, giving the Russian empire's 1912 census count of 2,206,621 Old..."

The Old Believers, who rejected Nikon's reforms of the 1650s, were anathematised, taxed and exiled and gained legal toleration only in 1905.

This source names Old Believers directly: "Robert O. Crummey was a historian of Russia, and this academic book, published by University of Wisconsin Press, is a detailed history of the Vyg community, a major Old Believer settlement that..."

Old Believers rejected the liturgical reforms Patriarch Nikon introduced into Russian Orthodoxy from 1652.

The Old Believers rejected the Nikonian reforms as a corruption of the true faith, retaining the two-finger sign of the cross and the pre-reform service books at severe cost under state persecution.

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Said with the older spelling Isus in the Name and with the two-fingered sign of the cross, both of which the seventeenth century revision altered and both of which the Old Believers refused.

Old Believers count prayers on the lestovka, a leather ladder of stitched steps read as a ladder of ascent, rather than on the knotted woollen rope used elsewhere in the Byzantine world.

Old Believers keep the eight barred cross alone and refuse the four barred western form, and the shape of the cross was one of the points on which the seventeenth century separation was argued.

The Old Believers keep the service books as they stood before the Nikonian revision of the sixteen fifties. The refusal of the corrected books is the whole ground of the separation, and it is a refusal of a revision rather than of the office.

Old Believer workshops kept the older painter's manuals along with the older forms of the rite, and their icons are recognisable by that continuity.

The Old Believers preserved forms of spiritual eldership through the centuries when they had no bishops at all, and in some of their communities the elder took over functions the priesthood would otherwise have held.

Kept in hook notation when the state church went over to part singing, and one of the marks by which Old Believer worship is recognised.

Included in the wider Eastern Orthodox Old Testament canon beyond the Trent-era Roman Catholic deuterocanon, affirmed at the Synod of Jerusalem, 1672.

Included in the wider Eastern Orthodox Old Testament canon beyond the Trent-era Roman Catholic deuterocanon, affirmed at the Synod of Jerusalem, 1672.

Baptism is by full threefold immersion, insisted on strictly, and a baptism by pouring is not accepted.

The Byzantine rite is served in the recension used in Russia before the middle of the seventeenth century, from the older books, with the older chant and the older spelling of the name of Jesus. The difference from the Russian Orthodox Church is not doctrinal and it is the reason the body exists.

Monastic communities have been central to the survival of this body through three centuries of state pressure.

Kept on January 7 of the civil calendar on the Julian reckoning, in the pre-Nikonian rite the Old Believers preserved through the schism of 1666 to 1667.

Confession is kept, and in the priestless communities it is heard by a lay elder because there is no priest to hear it.

Infants are baptised by full immersion.

The crowning is served from the older books. In the priestless communities marriage has been a standing problem, since there is no priest to serve it.

The fasting calendar is kept in its older and stricter form.

Prayer is made with the two-finger sign of the cross, which was the Russian usage before the reforms and the refusal of which to abandon gave this body its existence.

Included in the wider Eastern Orthodox Old Testament canon beyond the Trent-era Roman Catholic deuterocanon, affirmed at the Synod of Jerusalem, 1672.

Included in the wider Eastern Orthodox Old Testament canon beyond the Trent-era Roman Catholic deuterocanon, affirmed at the Synod of Jerusalem, 1672.

Kept in the older Muscovite recension of the rite, with the two-fingered sign of the cross the Nikonian reforms tried to replace.

Only icons painted in the older manner are venerated, and the newer Westernised style is refused.

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