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Old Believers

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Old Believers

Section of the Russian Orthodox Church that was excommunicated 1667 for refusing to accept the liturgical reforms of the Moscow Patriarch Nikon, particularly the new way of crossing oneself during prayer. Much persecuted, the Old Believers are still strong in many country areas of Russia where their initial following was based.



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She felt him trying to piece together in a laborious and elementary fashion fragments of belief, unsoldered and separate, lacking the unity of phrases fashioned by the old believers.
Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia View in context
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