Oblivantsy (from russian: обливанцы) is a word still used by

Old Believers Old Believers or Old Ritualists, ''starovery'' or ''staroobryadtsy'' are Eastern Orthodox Christians who maintain the liturgical and ritual practices of the Russian Orthodox Church as they were before the reforms of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow bet ...

for those who practise the

baptism Baptism (from grc-x-koine, βάπτισμα, váptisma) is a form of ritual purification—a characteristic of many religions throughout time and geography. In Christianity, it is a Christian sacrament of initiation and adoption, almost inv ...

by sprinkling water, as in

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, rather than by submerging the whole body three times, as the Old Believers insist on. The

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practises both ways of baptizing and, subsequently, recognizes baptism both by sprinkling and submerging.

Sources and references

*Мельников, Фёдор Ефимович "Блуждающее богословие," Москва, 1911, Барнаул 2002 / Mel'nikov Fyodor Yefimovich "Erring Theology," Moscow, 1911, Barnaul 2002 (Russian) *Вургафт С.Г., Ушаков И.А. Старообрядчество. Лица, события, предметы и символы. Опыт энциклопедического словаря, Москва 1996 / Vurgaft S.G., Ušakov I.A. Old Believers. Persons, Events, Objects and Symbols. Attempt to an Encyclopedian Dictionary. Moscow, 1996 (Russian) Old Believer movement Baptism {{Christianity-stub