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Old Believer
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English
Etymology
en ru старове́р.
Noun
Old Believer
en religion Any of those who separated from the official Russian Orthodox Church after 1666 as a protest against the church reforms introduced by Patriarch Nikon between 1652 and 1666. They continue liturgical and ritual practices which predate the reforms.
en Old Ritualist Raskolnik Rascolnik
en Nikonite Nikonian
Translations
believer in Russian Orthodoxy as it was before the church reforms
Belarusian: be старавер m
Esperanto: eo malnovritano, eo malnovritanino female
Finnish: fi starovertsi, fi vanhauskoinen
French: fr vieux-croyant m, fr vieille-croyante f, fr vieux-ritualiste m, fr vieille-ritualiste m
German: de Altgläubiger m, de Altgläubige f, de Altgläubigentum n collective noun
Indonesian: id Pemercaya Lama
Kazakh: kk ескі дәстүршіл
Latvian: lv vecticībnieks
Lithuanian: lt séntikis m, lt séntikė f
Polish: pl staroobrzędowiec m, pl staroobrzędówka f, pl starowier m, pl starowierca f
Russian: ru старообря́дец m, ru старообря́дка f, ru старове́р m, ru старове́рка f, ru раско́льник m historical, ru раско́льница f historical
Tatar: tt старовер
Ukrainian: uk старообря́дець m, uk старообря́дка f, uk старообря́дник m, uk старообря́дниця m
en Eastern Orthodoxy