A member of a Russian Orthodox group which refused to accept the liturgical reforms of the patriarch Nikon (1605–81).
旧礼仪派教徒（拒绝接受牧首尼康[1605-1681]的礼拜式改革的俄罗斯东正-教派的教徒）
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The notion that in reality both official Orthodox and Old Believers shared ‘one faith’ had begun to gain ground even in the eighteenth century.
This would account for the leading role among Russian entrepreneurs of the Old Believers, a sect which had resisted reform in the Orthodox Church in the 1660s and was subsequently penalized and persecuted.
The good news in this case is that the Old Believers stayed true to their three-century tradition of tenacious independence.
He is the author of a number of accounts of funeral ritual among Old Believers as well as Russian Orthodox and has also written on the methodology of recording such material.
It was my first glimpse of Nikolaevsk residents, the Russian Old Believers: a much-persecuted and therefore extremely reclusive religious group, who first came to Alaska in 1960s.
Definition of Old Believer in US English:
Old Believer
noun
A member of a Russian Orthodox group which refused to accept the liturgical reforms of the patriarch Nikon (1605–81).
旧礼仪派教徒（拒绝接受牧首尼康[1605-1681]的礼拜式改革的俄罗斯东正-教派的教徒）
Example sentencesExamples
It was my first glimpse of Nikolaevsk residents, the Russian Old Believers: a much-persecuted and therefore extremely reclusive religious group, who first came to Alaska in 1960s.
He is the author of a number of accounts of funeral ritual among Old Believers as well as Russian Orthodox and has also written on the methodology of recording such material.
The notion that in reality both official Orthodox and Old Believers shared ‘one faith’ had begun to gain ground even in the eighteenth century.
The good news in this case is that the Old Believers stayed true to their three-century tradition of tenacious independence.
This would account for the leading role among Russian entrepreneurs of the Old Believers, a sect which had resisted reform in the Orthodox Church in the 1660s and was subsequently penalized and persecuted.