Lipovan Orthodox Old-Rite Church

The Orthodox Church Altritualistische, Lipowanische Christian Church from the Old Rite or Lipowanisch Orthodox Church Altritualistische in common with the Russian Orthodox Church Altritualistischen one of the Old Believers churches that belong to the hierarchy of Belaya Krinitsa ( the Orthodox churches).

The head of the church has the title Archbishop of Belaya Krinitsa and Metropolitan of all Old Believers Christians. Its official (but not actual) seat Bila Krynyzja, Russian Belaya Krinitsa, Romanian Fântâna - Albă; a village in the Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine, where still lives a significant minority lipowanische. The headquarters was established in 1940 relocated to Brăila in Romania. Since October 24, 1996 Metropolitan Leonti is the head of the Orthodox Church Altritualistischen.

History

The Russian Old Believers are Lipovans who fled in the late 17th and early 18th century religious persecution.

Organization

Eparchies:

  • Eparchy of Braila and Tulcea
  • Eparchy of Slava
  • Eparchy of Bukovina and Moldavia
  • Eparchy of North America, Western Europe, Australia
  • Eparchy of Georgia

Inter alia,

Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church Bila Krynytsia, Chernivtsi Oblast
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