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Nikon

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Nikon , 1605-81, Russian churchman, patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church (1652-66). He undertook an extremely vigorous reform of church discipline and ritual with a view to purging accretions and eccentricities from the Russian rites. His reforms, particularly his correction of service books from the Greek (1654), created a schism in the church and inspired the formation of a major opposition sect, the Raskolniki, who retained the older usages banned by Nikon. Heterodox sects such as the Dukhobors formed and attached themselves to the Raskolniki to avoid persecution. By 1658, Nikon had... Read more
Nikita Minov Nikon
Encyclopedia of World Biography Nikita Minov Nikon Nikita Minov Nikon (1605-1681) was patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church from 1652 ... resulted in a split, or schism, in the Russian Orthodox Church. Nikon was born in the village of Veldemanovo in the province of Nizhni ... Read more
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ... Kazan in Moscow, he opposed the liturgical reforms of Patriarch Nikon , while establishing the ascetical and highly moral group of ... he was exiled to Siberia in 1653. He returned on the death of Nikon (1664), but was again exiled, imprisoned, and punished for refusing ... Read more

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