Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church

The Russian Orthodox Church Altritualistische (Russian Русская Православная Старообрядческая Церковь ) is an Orthodox church in the priestly Old Believers ( Popowzy ), which is generated out of a split within the Russian Orthodox Church by the liturgical reforms of Patriarch Nikon in the second half of the 17th century Russia has emerged.

Churches of the priestly Old Believers

From the 18th century until 1988, the official name of the Russian Orthodox Church Altritualistische: " Altorthodoxe Church of Christ " (Russian Древлеправославная Церковь Христова ). It is not to be confused with the Russian Old Believers Church (hierarchy of Novozybkov ) (Russian Русская Древлеправославная Церковь ), another church of Old Believers. " Drewleprawoslawije " ( " Old / Ancient Orthodoxy ") was the common self-designation of the Old Believers and their cause since the 17th century.

The Russian Orthodox Church is Altritualistische - together with the " Lipowanischen Christian Church from the Old Rite " (Russian Русская Православная церковь ) - one of the two churches of the Old Believers, the hierarchy of the Belaya Krinitsa (Russian Белая Криница, ukrainian today Bila Krynyzja, Romanian Fântâna - Albă, a village in the Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine) belong. Since 1940, the seat is located in Brăila, where still lives a significant minority lipowanische.

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church Altritualistischen carries since 1988 the title of Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia. The Metropolitan has his residence on the Rogoschskoje Cemetery in Moscow. The current Metropolitan is Kornilyevo ( Titov ); the former Bishop of Kazan and Vyatka, was elected by the Holy Council on 18 October 2005. It was introduced as Metropolitan on 23 October 2005.

Belokrinizkaja hierarchy

Bishop Pawel Kolomenski ( Павел Коломенский ) had been the only bishop who had the Nikon's reforms rejected. When he was martyred in 1656, the Old Believers were able to dedicate to high clergy, the new priest. They therefore had a new priest from the official Russian Church solicit and donate them the sacrament of Chrismation, thus they were indirectly dependent on the official church. Old Believers in Austria in 1848 won the canonically consecrated Greek bishop must Ambrosio ( Andrei Georgijewitsch Popovich ) of Sarajevo and Bosnia, the pressure on the Turkish authorities had his episcopal see an ad for the Altgläubigentum. In the monastery Bila Krynyzja, in the then Austrian Bukovina, Ambrosio inaugurated in 1849 Bishop Kiril ( Timofeyev ) and Sophroni, Bishop of Simbirsk, arguing that Old Believers hierarchy of Belaya Krinitsa.

Tsarist

The activity of the hierarchy of Belaya Krinitsa on the territory of the Russian Empire was hampered both by numerous experiments obstruction of the Imperial Russian authorities, as well as by internal division. The situation changed radically with the publication of the so-called Edict of the tsar from April 17, 1905 " In addition to strengthening the foundations of freedom of belief ", shortly afterwards the " unsealing " of the altars in the most important religious and cultural center of the Old Believers, the Rogoschskoje - cemetery followed and the Old Believers allowed the free development of their church life.

Soviet time

Presence

His 2004 elected successor, Metropolitan Andrian ( Tschetwergow ), proved to be a talented and charismatic leader who campaigned intensively for the formulation and dissemination of cultural and religious "message" of the Old Believers for the modern Russian society. Although he presented himself as a traditionalist and conservative in his public statements, Andrian made ​​a significant step forward to a dialogue with the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian political establishment. The sudden death of Metropolitan Andrian on 10 August 2005 during a pilgrimage in Voruralgebiet, found this "new course" to a temporary end. However, the new Metropolitan Kornilyevo, who was elected on 18 October 2005 confirmed that he would continue the policy of openness to the Russian company that was started by his predecessor.

Organization

The head of the Church is the Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia, based on the Rogoschskoje Cemetery in Moscow. He is the highest body of the Church, the Holy Council ( Освященный Собор ) selected. The Council also appoints the members of the Council of the Metropolitan. The Russian Orthodox Church Altritualistischen today belong to an estimated 500,000 people.

The church has five local bishops and more than 250 communities in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. The Russian Orthodox Altritualistische Church has 12 dioceses, eleven are located on the territory of the former Soviet Union and is located in Germany: Moscow, Kiev and Ukraine, Kishinev and Moldova, Novosibirsk and Siberia, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Saint Petersburg Tver, Nizhny Novgorod and Vladimir, Kazan Vyatka, Don and the Caucasus, the Urals and the Far East. The eparchy includes Augsburg Germany and the Baltic States.

For several years there have been attempts to restore the schools for the training of priests for the Altritualistische church.

First Hierarch of the hierarchy of Belaya Krinitsa

In Hungary and Romania ( in Bila Krynyzja, sometimes in Braila, Romania):

In Russia