The current Orthodox young generation may be surprised by the concept of the Old Believers, the Old Believers and the more unlike the difference between the old workers and Orthodox believers.

The fans of a healthy lifestyle study the lives of modern hermites, on the example of the family of Lykov, who lived 50 years away from civilization, while geologists did not find them in the late 70s of the last century. What was not pleased with the History of Orthodoxy?

Old Believers - who they are

Immediately alleged that the Old Believers are people who adhere to the Christian faith of Donikonovsky times, and the Old Believers worship the pagan gods that existed in the folk religion before the arrival of Christianity. The canons of the Orthodox Church as civilization develops somewhat modified. The XVII century introduced a split in Orthodoxy after the introduction of innovations by Patriarch Nikon.

According to the decree of the Church, rites and traditions changed, all disagreeed by Anathema, began to persecute fans of the old faith. Adherents of the Donikonov traditions began to call the forearlsBut among them there was no unity.

Old Believers are adepts of the Orthodox flow in Russia

Believers who driven by the official church began to settle in Siberia, in the Volga region and even in the territory of other states, such as Turkey, Poland, Romania, China, Bolivia and Australia.

The current life of the Old Believers and their traditions

The found settlement of Starovover in 1978 was extinguished by all the space then still existing Soviet Union. Millions of people literally "sticking out" to the TVs to see the flow of hermites, which practically did not change since the days of the grandfather, Pradedov.

Currently, Russia has several hundreds of Old Believers. Starbers themselves teach their children, old people and parents are in a special reverence. All settlement works hard, for food, all vegetables b fruits are grown by the family, the duties are distributed very strictly.

The random goiter will take a goodwill, but it will be eating and drinking from a separate dish order not to defile the members of the community. Cleaning in the house, washing and washing dishes is carried out only by well or spring flow water.

The sacrament of baptism

Starbers try to hold the rite of baptism of babies during the first 10 days, before this very carefully choose the name of the newborn, it must be in the sacraticles. All items for baptism for several days in front of the sacrament are purified in running water. Parents in christening are not present.

By the way, the sauna bath is an unclean place, so the cross, obtained by baptism, is removed and put on only after abandoned with clean water.

Wedding and funeral

The Streversal Church prohibits the marriage to young people who are native to the eighth knee or bound by the "Cross". Wedding is held on any day, except Tuesday and Thursday.

Wedding in Starovrov

Married women Do not come out of the house without a headdress.

The funeral is not a special event, the Old Believers have no mourning. The body of the dead is washed by the people of one floor, specially selected in the community. In a choped coffin, the chips is poured, the body is put on it and covers the sheet. The covers have no covers. After the funeral there are no commemoration, all the things of the deceased are distributed in the village as alms.

Expert Cross and Cross Sign

Church rituals and worships occur around the eight-pointed cross.

On a note! Unlike Orthodox traditions, there is no image of a crucified Jesus.

In addition to the large crossbar, the hands of the Savior were nailed, there are two more. The upper crossbar symbolizes the sign, a sin was usually written on it, for which the convicted cropped. Lower little board - symbol of weights for weighing human sins.

Expertants use the eight-spin cross

Important! The present orthodox Church Recognizes the right to the existence of executive churches, as well as crosses without crucifixion, as the signs of Christianity.

Orthodox believers impose a criste with three fingers, which indicate the unity of the Holy Trinity. It was this tradition that the conflict was based on the old workers and the new Nikonovsky current, the older Christians refused to fall out, according to them, Cookish. Older workers are still bakingbid by two fingers, index and middle, pronouncing twice "Hallelujah".

Self-serving, hermites are specially honored. Men necessarily wear clean shoes, and women are sundresses and scarves. During the service, all those present in the temple stand with arms crossed on his chest, demonstrating humility and humility.

In the Streversary Churches, the modern Bible is not recognized, and only Donikonovsky Scripture, which is carefully studied by all members of the settlement.

The main differences from Orthodoxy

In addition to the non-recognition of traditions and rites of the modern Orthodox Church and the above differences, Old Believers:

• make only earthly bows;
• do not recognize rosary of 33 beads using flattering, in which 109 nodules;
• baptism is performed with a three-time immersion in water with his head, while in Orthodoxy, a sprinkling is taken;
• name Jesus write Izus;
• recognize icons only from wood and copper.

Many Old Believers are currently taking the traditions of the Old Believers Orthodox Churches, which has been encouraged in the official church.

Who are the Old Believers?

The world is at home !!! Thoughts were mixed from the fact that a long time in my head happens, so I began to write with the meaning, so that I understood, but everything was mixed by the battlement. I know exactly many those who are wealthy (rich in money and their number) and lives in peace with his family, they are all grateful to the Lord and do since they visited the ancestors. When they have problems, they throw all things and keep the post, all the problems go to themselves, after the further lives the same life as they lived. I know a lot of people who did not honor the faith of ancestors, they are not there and not there, but when it came to the trouble and they began to do as posts, the prayers also helped them, after the majority returned to the former to atheism, and for the previous one Returned, I do not know not one who can challenge it, but you. Each of you the Most High Forces are directed, but not everyone goes the desired road or to the end as it should be. Knowledge and technique are given in order to be easier for you, but the fact is that people do not correctly use this, mostly atheists who sooner or later turn the paradise to hell in Hell's land. I'm not going to poke your finger at these places, you and so they know them well, try to clear them today, the state of anti-Lime whose savings will not be able to do this. As it was from the Poskon centuries, the people of the correct premissance and with their own deeds, so it remains, but they are left on Earth and they leave these places far away. At the expense of your church, she has not been known for a long time, the places where the Lord of their units remained. How to find I will explain and how to distinguish from places not true. The first any temple for people where the power of the Lord is not built as it fell. The temple of Heavens of the Lord is built only by people who are chicted and after a long post, during the construction of not what evil deeds should not be with them and even more than another religion. So the painting in manual in it and those who have the right to write as well as the construction of the temple after a long post not the pictures are illuminated. Which of you will show such a temple? Some idolo fans today. Icons from the shop, these are only papers with pictures and only anti-imaging you dirty by the fact that it is enough to choke. You are all funny today. At the Old Believers, the prayer houses are clean, the Holy Spirit is present in them. Not one does not hear that the elders say. There is no mind in the population to this day. Christians have long left the Lord. Today, most are not atheists are not children of the Lord. They themselves take away from the right things. Some slaves today have slaves. Himself from the children of the Lord turned into slaves. You have all the work, slaves. I do not care about talents. Do not work alone, but to work in the queue. Mix you or you yourself will laugh. Pray, ask, so that the king of the Lord came, I can not come to hold the shackles. From his name I speak. In the glory of Heaven, the Lord. Lord with us.

Orthodox Christians of this time are sometimes asked about what the parishioners of the Old Believer Church differ from them. To learn to distinguish them, you need to know not so much features.

What is the Old Believer Church

The Old Believer Church is called the total number of different organizations of the religious direction and the currents of theology, which arose due to the separation from the Orthodox Church. This split occurred during the reign of Patriarch Nikon, who in 1650-1660 held a number of liturgical reforms, with whom part of the high rank servants did not agree.

The Orthodox Church is considered to unite believers according to the religion of the eastern branch of Christianity, which are taken by the dogmas of the Orthodox Church and are subject to its traditions.

How did the history of the Orthodox Church begun

The name of the church itself is Orthodox - has a deep meaning. It expressed such a concept as the "right faith", the basis of which were two pillars: Scripture and sacred legend.

There are some more decoding options. this word, such as "proper glorification", "faithful word" and others.

In addition to such a name, there is another, Greek. Orthodoxy. When translating the word sounds like a binding. That is, the combination of people who think and act equally.

Orthodoxy's fathers are Vasily Great, who left the Breen World in about 379, Grigory Theologian, who died in 390, as well as John Zlatoust, whom the death of Nastagla in 407. The dates of these mentors in faith practically converge with time when the doctrine of Christ the Savior began to spread. It happened after the adoption of Christianity by Emperor Konstantin Great.

The beginning of the Russian Orthodox Church was by 988, when the Grand Duke of Kiev, Vladimir, it was decided to baptize Russia. This represents only the official transition of the country to the faith of Christ. In reality, Christians have already lived throughout the country, although it is unknown, in what conditions they were.

With the baptism of Russia, the formation of the first dioceses was also produced. This stretched for several years. So formed in:

• 988 Kiev diocese, which became the main one over all the others;
• 990 Rostov diocese;
• 992 Novgorod diocese.

Bunty began to happen in the country. The princes quarreled and, gradually changing the world map, created their own dioceses in order not to depend on the neighbors.

Top of Nikon's reform in Russia existed 13 dioceses. In those days, the Orthodox Church of Russia completely depended on Constantinople. The most important ranks were consistent there, from there sent new metropolitans, which, as of the Greeks, most of them, were not very careful about the development of faith in Russian lands.

War was conducted. Rus, and after the Moscow kingdom, of course, tried to subordinate both the eastern neighbors-pagans and Western neighbors Catholics. New dioceses appeared, who disappeared in the cloud of the new military confrontation.

There were changes in the ROC that not everyone rushed into the eyes. And the first is the formation of the Patriarchate. Heading this organization Patriarch had a huge weight in the country. In 1652, Nikon climbed into the Patriarch throne.

He decided to reform to strengthen the Orthodoxy of the Russian and raising the prestige of faith. This includes:

• correction of text in liturgical books;
• writing icons similar to Byzantine;
• instead of Isus, writing Jesus appeared;
• introduced a three-line instead of using a bubble godfather;
• earth bows were replaced by the waist;
• movement during the ministry became the embonodent;
• not only the eight-spin cross, but also six-pin;
• a sermon was introduced, which the priest holds at the end of each service.

Comparison of two directions

It would seem that the Orthodox, and the Old Believers are Christians of one branch. And yet, between them there is a difference that often causes parishioners and priests negative emotions. A number of distinctions of these beliefs make the Orthodox Church as far from Old Believers as from Catholics.

Please note if you have to see the old supplementary ministry, which is not used in the liturgy in their churches, the bread for liturgy. Orthodox priests use it in the process of proscake. The custom is quite new, because it appeared in the 19th century, respectively, cannot be used by the Old Believers.

Those who follow the old tradition, begin to serve and end it with terrestrial bows. In addition, throughout the service, they make earthly bows. In Orthodoxy, initial bows, as well as the final, are not used. Earth bows during the ministry were replaced with the waist.

Finst

The first thing that distinguishes the Orthodox from the Experter Christian is the godmond. Strover, making it, folds his fingers (fingers) so that this sign is produced by only two fingers. For orthodox Christian it is unacceptable. This symbol for him contains an autumn and appeal to all three of God's horseship: Father and Son, and the Holy Spirit. In this regard, the criticism of the Orthodox is produced by three fingers.

Image of Jesus

Changes also concern the image of the Savior. In the books and in the images of Christ, instead of Isus (like antarokers) began to use another, more modern shapewhich looks like Jesus. At the same time, the inscriptions are shown on the cross in the upper part. On the icons of the Old Believers, this inscription looks like a Curbon of the PLA (which should signify the king of glory) and the IP XC (ISUS Christ). Orthodox icons on the eight-pointed cross are inscription in Inci (which is deciphered as Jesus Nazares Tsar Jewsky) and ІIS HC (Jesus Christ).

The icons themselves can also look different. Old Believers continue to create them in the style, which was formed in ancient Russia and Byzantium. The images of the Orthodox Church are slightly different, making the trends of the icon paintings of the West.

Another feature of iconographic skills - casting images. In Orthodoxy, it is categorically prohibited. Starbers are often used by this method of processing materials to create icons.

Symbols of faith

"The symbol of faith" is one of the main Orthodox prayers. Reading her daily, Christians open their souls and thoughts about the faith of their own, in order to be closer to him. As it turned out, this prayer in Orthodox Christians is somewhat different from the option that is essential for the Old Believers.

Orthodox "faith" sounds much melodious, her words do not interfere with each other, do not stumble. The opposition of concepts occurs without unnecessary ligaments. In old-supplied form, these bundles are present. Do not notice them is impossible. The concepts of "born, irrelevant", as used in Orthodox prayer, the Old Believers sound like "born, and not created."

In addition, the Old Believers do not accept the approval of the Orthodox on the need to confess the Spirit of the Holy, since he is the true essence. The Orthodox version points only on the "God is true of God's God," which speaks only about the father and son.

In the 19th century, Patriarch Nikon conducted reforms that were caused by the need to bring the liturgical practice of the Russian Church to a single model. Part of the clergy together with the laity rejected these changes, stating that they would not retreat from old rites. They called the Nikonov reform of the "Slap of Faith" and stated that they would preserve the former statutes and traditions in worship. A person is difficult to distinguish the Orthodox from the Old Believers, since the difference between representatives of the "old" and "new" faith is not so great.

Definition

Starbers – christians who left the Orthodox Church as a result of their disagreement with reforms carried out by the Patriarch Nikon.

Orthodox Christians – believers who recognize the dogmas of the Orthodox Church.

Comparison

Old Believers are more detached from the world, rather than Orthodox Christians. In everyday life, they preserved ancient traditions, which, in essence, became a certain ritual. The life of Orthodox Christians is deprived of many weighing religious rites. The main thing that should never be forgotten, is a prayer before each case, as well as the observance of the commandments.

In the Orthodox Church, a three-purpose criticism is adopted. It means unity of the Blessed Trinity. At the same time, the little finger and the ring finger pressed together to the palm and symbolize faith in god-human nature Christ. Old Believers are medium and index finger together, confess the dual nature of the Savior. Big, ring finger and a little finger pressed against the palm of the palm of the premium Trinity.

Cross sign of Orthodox Christians

The Old Believers are accepted twice the "Allilia" and add "glory to you, God." So, they argue, the ancient church was headed. Orthodox "Allilia" topped three times. This very word in translation means "praise God." A triple pronunciation, from the point of view of Orthodox, glorifies the Most Holy Trinity.

In many stationary currents, it is customary to participate in worship to wear clothes in ancient Russian style. This is a shirt or spacecraft for men, a sundress and a big scarf for women. Men tend to grow beard. Orthodox Christians have a special style of clothing only relies with the priesthood. The laitys come to the temple in a modest, non-causing, but ordinary secular clothing, women with a covered head. By the way, there are no strict requirements for clothes praying in modern stationery arrives.

During worship, the Old Believers keep their hands on the seams as Orthodox, but crossed on the chest. And for some, and for others it is a sign of special humility before God. All actions during the service believers are synchronously committed. If you need to bow, it simultaneously makes all those present in the temple.

Old Believers recognize only the eight-pointed cross. It is this form that they consider perfect. Orthodox, besides this, also four-spin, and six-pin.

In worship, the Old Believers are committed by earthly bows. Orthodox during service adopted belt. The earthly terrestrial are performed only in special cases. Moreover, on Sundays and holidays, as well as the Holy Pentecost, earthly bows are strictly prohibited.

Old Believers The name of Christ is written as Izus, and Orthodox - and andsUS. Also differ the upper inscription on the cross. In the Old Believers, this is the Cura's Clamps (King of Glory) and IC HP (ISUS Christ). In the Orthodox eight-pointed cross, Inci (Jesus Nazi Tsar Jewish) and IIS XS (and andsUS Christ). On the native eight-pointed cross of the Old Believers there is no image of the crucifixion.

As a rule, eight-pointed crosses are put on the graves of the Old Believers with double roof, so-called cabbage rolls - a symbol of Russian antiquity. Orthodox crosses covered on top of the roof.

Conclusions Site

1. Adherents of the old faith in everyday life are more detached from the world than Orthodox Christians.
2. Starbers make a two-intestine criticism, Orthodox - three-purpose.
3. During the prayer, the Old Believers adopted the twofold head of "Alliluya", the Orthodox - three-time.
4. In worship, the Old Believers keep hands crossed on the chest, Orthodox - lowered on the seams.
5. All actions during service the annexers make synchronously.
6. As a rule, for participation in worship, the Old Believers wear clothes in the Old Russian style. At the Orthodox only for the priesthood there is a special type of clothing.
7. In worship, the Old Believers perform earthly bows, Orthodox - waist.
8. The Old Believers recognize only the eight-spin cross, Orthodox - eight-, six- and four-spin.
9. Different Orthodox and Old Believers writing the name of Christ, as well as drawing the letters over the eight-pointed cross.
10. On the native crosses Old Believers (eight-pointed four-pointed) No image of crucifixion.

What are the old workers believe and where did they come from? Historical reference

IN last years An increasing number of our fellow citizens are interested in the issues of a healthy lifestyle, environmentally friendly business methods, survival in extreme conditions, the ability to live in harmony with nature, spiritual perfection. In this regard, many turn to the thousand-year experience of our ancestors who managed to master the huge territories of the current Russia and creating agricultural, trade and military outposts in all remote corners of our Motherland.

Not least in this case we are talking about starbers- People who settled in due time not only territory Russian EmpireBut also bringing Russian languages, Russian culture and Russian faith on the shores of the Nile, in the jungle of Bolivia, the empty of Australia and on the snow-covered pops of Alaska. The experience of older trucks is truly unique.: They were able to preserve their religious and cultural identity in the most difficult and political conditions, not to lose the language and customs. It's not by chance that there are so well a famous hotel from the family of the Lykovoys in the whole world.

However, about themselves starbersnot much known. Someone believes that the Old Believers are people with primitive education that adhere to outdated economy methods. Others think that the Old Believers are people who profess paganism and worshiping ancient Russian gods - Perun, Veles, Dazhibogu and others. Third wonder: if there are older, then there must be some kind of old faith? The answer to these and other issues relating to the Old Believers, read in our article.

Old and new faith

One of the most tragic events in the history of Russia of the XVII century became the split of the Russian church. King Alexey Mikhailovich Romanov and his closest spiritual associate patriarch Nikon(Minin) decided to carry out global church reform. Starting with insignificant, at first glance, changes - change in the addition of fingers in the procession with a double-mouth of the three-part and the abolition of earthly bows, the reform soon affected all parties to worship and charter. Continuing and developing to one way or another until the reign of the emperor Peter I.This reform has changed many canonical rules, spiritual establishments, customs of church management, writing and unwritten traditions. Almost all sides of the religious, and then the cultural life of the Russian people underwent the changes.

However, with the beginning of the reforms, it turned out that a significant number of Russian Christians saw in them an attempt to treasure the dedication of the destruction of religious and cultural defendants, which the centuries were in rui after her baptism. Against the plans of the king and the patriarch made a lot of priests, monok and laity. They wrote petitions, letters and appeal, exposing innovations and protecting faith, stored hundreds of years. In their writings, the apologists indicated that reforms were not just forcibly, under the fear of executions and persecutions, reproduced traditions and legends, but also affect the most important thing - they destroy and change the Christian faith itself. The fact that the reform of Nikon is an apostable and changes the faith itself, almost all defenders of the ancient church legend wrote. So, the priest indicated:

They got lost and retreated from the true faith with a nickered apostate to a mock in the heretic. Fire, yes whip, yes Visilice want to approve faith!

He also called for not afraid of tormentors and suffer for " old christian faith" In the same spirit expressed famous writer of that time, defender of Orthodoxy Spiridon Potemkin:

Tried faith True hurts with adjustments (adding) heretical, so as not to understand the faithful Christians, but maysed on deception.

Potemkin condemned the worship service and rites committed on new books and new ranks who called "evil faith":

The hetians are the essence of the baptizing in the evil faith, cross the gloom of God in the Holy Trinity is one.

The need to protect the deceic tradition and the old Russian faith wrote a confessor and a priest deacon. Feodor, leading numerous examples from the history of the church:

The heretic, pious people who suffer from him for the old faith, in the links Moril's smoke ... And the old faith will recover the God with a single Pop before all the kingdom, all the authorities will be and the ending from around the world.

Inki-confessors of the Solovetsky Monastery, who refused to take the reform of Patriarch Nikon, wrote the king Alexei Mikhailovich in his fourth pendant:

The sovereign, the sovereign in the same old faith, in which the father of your sores and all the fabulous kings and the great princes and our fathers died, and the reverend fathers of Zosima and the Savathi, and Herman, and Philip Metropolitan and all of the Sofia fathers pleased God.

So gradually and began to say that before the reforms of Patriarch Nikon and Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, there was one faith to church split, and after the split - another faith was already. Declastic confession began to call old faith, and post-acrossous reformed confession - new faith.

Such an opinion did not deny the supporters of the reforms of Patriarch Nikon themselves. So, Patriarch Joachim on the famous dispute in the grain ward said:

Before you have a new faith; on the advice and blessing of the Holy Universal Patriarchs.

As early as Archimandrite, he argued:

I do not know neither old faith nor new faith, but that the bosses are told that and work.

So gradually appeared the concept " old faith", And people who confess her, began to call" starbers», « strover" In this way, starbers began to call people who refused to adopt church reforms of Patriarch Nikon and adhered to church establishments ancient Russia, i.e old faith. Accepted the same reform "Novovera" or " novolubtsi" However, the term " novovera " There was no long time, and the term "Starovar" exists and is still.

Old Believers or Old Believers?

For a long time in government and church documents of Orthodox Christians who preserve ancient liturgical ranks, old-line books and customs, called " raskolniki" In guilt, they were faithful to the church legend, which allegedly entailed church split. For many years of Raskolnikov subjected to repression, persecutions, infringement in civil rights.

However, during the time of the Board of Catherine, the Great Relationships to the Old Believers began to change. The Empress considered that the Old Believers can be quite useful for the settlement of non-injured areas of the expanding Russian Empire.

At the suggestion of Prince Potemkin, Catherine signed a number of documents providing them with rights and accommodation benefits in special areas of the country. In these documents, the Old Believers were not recognized as " raskolniki", But as" ", that if it was not a sign of favor, then undoubtedly pointed to the weakening of the negative attitude of the state to the annels. Holiday Christians, starbersHowever, did not suddenly agreed to use this name. In apologetic literature, the decrees of some cathedrals indicated that the term "Old Believers" was not quite acceptable.

It was written that the name "Old Believers" implies that the reasons for the church separation of the XVII century are among the church rites, and the Vera itself remained completely intact. Thus, the Irgizsky Streversary Cathedral of 1805 called the "Old Believers" of the co-workers, that is, Christians who use old rites and old-line books, but obeying the Synodal Church. The ruling of the Irgiz Cathedral said:

Others retreated from us to the decranses, called Old Believers, which, is, and we contain the old-line book, and they send the service for them, but with all the communication in everything is inexpensively, both in prayer and in Yasterns and Yatience.

In the historical and apologetic writings of the ancillary Christians of the XVIII - the first half of the XIX century, the terms "Old Believers" and "Knevants" continued to be used. They are used, for example, in " History of the Native Desert»Ivan Filippova, apologetic essay" Deonacon Answers"And others. This term was also used by numerous new-proper authors, such as N. I. Kostomarov, S. Knyazkov. P. Znamensky, for example, in " Leadership to Russian history"Edition of 1870 says:

Peter became much stricter to the experts.

At the same time, over the years, part of the old workers began to use the term " old Believers" Moreover, as the famous executive writer indicates Pavel Curious (1772-1848) in its historical dictionaryName strover More inherent with the muddy consensses, and " old Believers"- Persons belonging to consent accepting a hentage priesthood.

And indeed, the consent, admissive priesthood (Belokrinitsky and Bezfopopovskoe), by the beginning of the XX century instead of the term " starbers, « strover»More and more often used to use" old Believers" Soon the name of the Old Believers was enshrined at the legislative level by the famous decree of the emperor Nicholas II " The strengthening began warp" The seventh item of this document reads:

Assign name old Believers, Instead of the currently used name of the Raskolnikov, all followers of sense and harmonies that the main dogmas of the Orthodox church are acceptable, but do not recognize some rites adopted and send their worship in old-line books.

However, after that, many Old Believers continued to be called starbers. Especially carefully maintained this name Speeding consent. D. Mikhailov, author of the magazine " Native Starina", Published by the raped circle of jealous of Russian antiquity in Riga (1927), wrote:

About the "old Christian faith" says Protopop Avvakum, and not about "rites". That is why nowhere in all historical decrees and messages of the first jeques of the Arctic Orthodoxy - nowhere is found. old Believers.

What do anticipate believers believe?

Old Believers As the heirs of the Deraskolnaya, Dorefrem Rus, try to maintain all the dogmas, canonical provisions, ranks and submissions of the Old Russian Church.

First of all, of course, this concerns the main church dogmas: confession of St. Trinity, the incarnation of the God of the Word, the two IPostasi of the Isus of Christ, the redemptive of his godfather and resurrection. The main difference of confession starovrov From other Christian confessions is the use of forms of science and church piety characteristic of the ancient church.

Among them -, immersible baptism, unison singing, canonical iconography, special prayer clothing. For worship starbers Using old-hand-timers of liturgical books, published before 1652 (mainly published with the last pious Patriarch Josephus. StarbersHowever, they do not constitute a single community or church - during hundreds of years they were divided into two main directions: Popovtsy and the charts.

Starbers—popovtsy

Starbers—popovtsy, In addition to other church settings, a three-tiered old-supplied hierarchy (priesthood) and all the church sacraments of an ancient church are recognized, among which are the most famous: baptism, world-formation, evailing, priesthood, marriage, confession (repentance), Impression. In addition to these seven sacraments in starovieri There are other, somewhat less well-known sacraments and crescents, namely: a break into the Inka (the equarious mystery of the marriage), a large and small sanctification of water, the consecration of oil on Polyeleos, a priestly blessing.

Old Believers

Old Believers It is believed that after the church split committed by the king, Alexey Mikhailovich, a pious church hierarchy (bishops, priests, deacons) disappeared. And therefore, part of church sacraments in the form in which they existed before the church split abolished. Today, all the anticipation-charts definitely recognize only two sacraments: baptism and confession (repentance). Some fleece (the angle of the Pomeranian Church) also recognize the sacrament of marriage. Starbers of chapel consent also admit to the Eucharist (communion) with the help of SV. Gifts consecrated in the old days and preserved to the present day. Also, chapels recognize a great consecration of water, which on the day of the Epiphany is obtained by infringing water in new water, consecrated in the old days when, in their opinion, the pious priests remained.

Old Believers or Old Believers?

Periodically among starovrov All conversion arises discussion: " And can I refer to the annexers? " Some prove that it is necessary to be called exclusively Christians because there is no old faith and old rituals, as well as the new faith and new rites. According to those, there is only one true, one right faith and one true Orthodox rituals, and everything else is heretical, non-reluctant, cryptional confession and wise.

Others, as mentioned above, are considered to be mandatory referring to starbers Professoring the old faith, because they believe that the difference between the ancient Christians and followers of Patriarch Nikon not only in rites, but also in the very faith.

Third believe that the word starbers need to replace the term " old Believers" In their opinion, there is no difference in faith between the older and followers of Patriarch Nikon (Niconians). The only difference is in the rites, which the Old Believers are correct, and Niconian is damaged or not in all.

There is a fourth opinion regarding the concept of older and old faith. It is separated mainly by Chad Synodal Church. In their opinion, there is not only difference in faith between the old workers (by the Old Belongs) and the Novovera (new facilities), but also in rites. And old, and new rites they call the same self-equative and equivalent. The use of certain or others is the case of taste and historical and cultural tradition. This is a resolution of the Local Cathedral of the Moscow Patriarchate from 1971.

Old Believers and pagans

At the end of the 20th century, religious and quasi-religious cultural associations were emerging in Russia, confessing religious views that are not related to Christianity and in general to Abrahamic, biblical religions. Supporters of some similar associations and sects proclaim the revival of religious traditions of the Doharistian, pagan Russia. To stand out, separate their views from Christianity obtained in Russia during the time of Prince Vladimir, some of the lamers began to call themselves " starbers».

And although the use of this term in this context is incorrectly and erroneously, in society began to disseminate that starbers - these are really pagans who revive old faith In the ancient Slavic gods - Perun, Svarog, Dazhbog, Veles and others. It is not by chance that, for example, a religious association appeared "The Old Russian Ingliatic Church of the Orthodox starovarov-Ingling" Her chapter, Pater Diy (A. Yu. Hinsevich), named "Patriarch of the Old Russian Orthodox Church Starovrov", Even stated:

Old Believers are supporters of the old Christian rite, and the Old Believers are old prechristian faith.

There are also other non-social communities and related cults that may be mistakenly perceived by society as an expert and Orthodox. Among them "Velezov Circle", "Union of Slavic communities of the Slavic Native Vera", "Russian Orthodox Circle" and others. Most of these associations arose on the soil of pseudo-historical reconstruction and falsification of historical sources. In fact, in addition to folklore folk beliefs, no reliable information about the pagans of pre-Christian Russia has not been preserved.

At some point, in the early 2000s, the term " starbers"It was very widely perceived as a synonym for pagans. However, thanks to a broad explanatory work, as well as a number of serious trials against the "Starovrov-Ingling" and other extremist neo-language groups, the popularity of this linguistic phenomenon today went to the decline. In recent years, the overwhelming majority of neuoknikov prefer to be called " rodnoveria».

G. S. Chistyakov