Examples of 'old believer' in a sentence

Meaning of "old believer"

An 'old believer' is a term used to describe a person who adheres to traditional or conservative beliefs, practices, or customs, especially in religious or cultural contexts. It often refers to individuals who resist or reject changes introduced by modernization or reform
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  • Any of those who separated from the official Russian Orthodox Church after 1666 as a protest against church reforms introduced by Patriarch Nikon between 1652 and 1666. They continue liturgical practices which predate the reforms.

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Maybe you are the reencarnation of an Old Believer.
Many Old Believer communities venerate her as a martyr.
The Research of geyser shot the Old Believer this is the artistic research.
Many Old Believer communities continue to venerate her as a martyr.
The rest passed upon his death to the Nikolsky Old Believer Monastery.
Grebenstchikov Old Believer house of prayer is the largest in the world.
Feodosia Morozova was one of the best-known partisans of the Old Believer movement.
Many of the Old Believer men were taken back to Russia and imprisoned.
The " time of troubles " was followed in northern Russia by the Old Believer Schism.
Old Believer communities are also found in Georgia and Kazakhstan.
Long long ago their Old Believer ancestors fled from Russia.
Old Believer cemetery.
An elder of the Old Believer sect confided to Roerich,.
The Grebenstchikov congregation is affiliated with the Pomorian Old-Orthodox Church, a priestless Old Believer denomination.
Original ZIL buses, an Old Believer Church in central Moscow, and just an ordinary morning.

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In doing so, Soviet forces encountered, to their surprise, Russian Old Believer villages.
Many of the Old Believer men were taken back to Russia and imprisoned [ unreliable source? ].
This Neoclassical townhouse was commissioned in 1794 by Lev Rastorguyev, an Old Believer merchant and landowner.
Old Believer family from the Rēzekne district, second half of the 19th Century c10.
Built in 1910, this church and bell tower served the Rogozhskoe Old Believer community.
His sister-in-law, Boyarynya Morozova, was involved in the Old Believer movement.

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