Members of this group were often called 'title-people' by outsiders because of their obsession with letters, such as the dispute of the Theodosians and the Seaside group over the letters inscribed on Christ's cross.
Members of this group were often called 'title-people' by outsiders because of their obsession with letters, such as the dispute of the Theodosians and the Seaside group over the letters inscribed on Christ's cross. The spiritual center of this group was at Vyg and was founded by the monk Cornelius. This movement can generally be divided into the more moderate priestly sects, such as Edinoverie, and extreme 'priestless' sects such as the 'Nay-Sayers' who advocated self-immolation and rejected all sacraments but baptism. One founder of this movement was imprisoned in a pit in Pustozersk before he was burned at the stake. That leader, archpriest Avvakum, would not accept reforms that included saying the alleluia three times rather than two and uses three rather than two fingers for the sign of the Cross – reforms that were enacted to align the church with Greek by the patriarch Nikon. For 10 points, name this breakaway sect of the Russian Orthodox church.
Members of this group were often called 'title-people' by outsiders because of their obsession with letters, such as the dispute of the Theodosians and the Seaside group over the letters inscribed on Christ's cross.
{Old Believers} (or {starovery})