Belokrinitskoe soglasie () is the largest and one of the most 'temperate' and 'optimistic' denominations among the

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. The name derives from the name of the village Belokrinitsa, where the full hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Oldrite Church was established. From the end of 1840, when the

Belokrinitskaya Hierarchy {{Unreferenced, date=November 2021 Belokrinitskaya Hierarchy (russian: Белокриницкая иерархия) is the first full and stable church hierarchy created by the Old Believers. The Orthodox Old-Rite Church (in earlier times called ...

was accepted by the Belokrinitskoe soglasie these two terms became almost synonymous (at least when spoken about

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, but not in

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and

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). In the 20th century the term Belokrinitskoe soglasie is synonymous with

Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church The Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church (or Russian Orthodox Oldritualist Church, Russian Orthodox Old-Ritualist Church) (russian: Русская Православная Старообрядческая Церковь) is an Eastern Orthodox Chur ...

. Some confusions may occur when using the term Belokrinitskoe soglasie in respect to a schism of Okruzhniki and Neokruzhniki. From one point of view, both sides of a schism originated from the

Rogozhskoe cemetery Rogozhskoe cemetery ( rus, Рогожское кладбище, p=rɐˈɡoʂskəjɪ ˈkladbʲɪɕːɪ) in Moscow, Russia, is the spiritual and administrative center of the largest Old Believers denomination, called the Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Chu ...

administrative system and so both belong to the Belokrinitskoe soglasie From the other side, the

priests and authorities were Okruzhniki almost entirely, so the term Belokrinitskoe soglasie can sometimes mean Okruzhniki.

References and select bibliography

{{reflist * S. G. Vurgraft, I. A. Ushakov. ''Staroobriadchestvo. Litsa, predmety, sobytiia i simvoly. Opyt entsiklopedicheskogo slovaria'' he Old Believers: Figures, Subjects, Events and Symbols. An Encyclopedic DictionaryMoscow: Tserkov, 1996. * Зеньковский С.А. Русское старообрядчество, том I и II, Москва 2006 / Zenkovskij S.A. “Russia’s Old Believers”, part I and II, Moscow 2006 Old Believer movement

See also

References and select bibliography