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The Lipovan Orthodox Old-Rite Church (or Orthodox Old-ritualist Church, Orthodox Old-Rite Church, ro, Biserica Ortodoxă de Rit Vechi din România) is the Romanian
History of the BORRV
/ref> * Eparchy of Fântâna Albă, with residence in Brăila, which includes the old rite orthodox parishes from Brăila and Galați counties, Bucharest, Borduşani (Ialomiţa county), Fântâna Albă/Bila Krynytsia (Ukraine); * Eparchy of Slava, with residence in Slava Rusă (Tulcea county), which includes the parishes from Slava Rusă, Slava Cercheză, Carcaliu, Ghindăreşti, Jurilovca, 2 Mai, Constanţa, Cernavodă and Năvodari in Constanţa county, and parishes from Bulgaria; * Eparchy of Bukovina and Moldavia, with residence in
Official website
The Lipovan Orthodox Old-Rite Church (or Orthodox Old-ritualist Church, Orthodox Old-Rite Church, ro, Biserica Ortodoxă de Rit Vechi din România) is the Romanian Old Believer
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 be ...
jurisdiction of the Belokrinitskaya Hierarchy {{Unreferenced, date=November 2021
Belokrinitskaya Hierarchy (russian: Белокриницкая иерархия) is the first full and stable church hierarchy created by the Old Believers.
The Orthodox Old-Rite Church (in earlier times called ...
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The head of the Church carries the title of ''Archbishop of Belo-Krinitsa and Metropolitan of All Old Orthodox Christians''. His see is officially (not in fact) in Bila Krynytsya (Bukovina), his residence in Brăila, Romania
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(current titular: Metropolitan Leontius (Izot) since 24 October 1996).
History
Lipovans are Russian Old Believers who fled Russia in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, in order to escape the persecution of their faith.Eparchies
There are seveneparchies
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of the Lipovan Orthodox Old-Rite Church:/ref> * Eparchy of Fântâna Albă, with residence in Brăila, which includes the old rite orthodox parishes from Brăila and Galați counties, Bucharest, Borduşani (Ialomiţa county), Fântâna Albă/Bila Krynytsia (Ukraine); * Eparchy of Slava, with residence in Slava Rusă (Tulcea county), which includes the parishes from Slava Rusă, Slava Cercheză, Carcaliu, Ghindăreşti, Jurilovca, 2 Mai, Constanţa, Cernavodă and Năvodari in Constanţa county, and parishes from Bulgaria; * Eparchy of Bukovina and Moldavia, with residence in
Târgu Frumos
Târgu Frumos (also spelled ''Tîrgu Frumos'', sometimes ''Târgul / Tîrgul Frumos''), ) is a town in Iași County, Western Moldavia, Romania. Eleven villages were administered by the town until 2004, when they were split off to form Balș, Cost ...
(Iași County), which includes the parishes from Iași, Vaslui, Neamţ, Suceava and Botoșani counties;
* Eparchy of Tulcea, with residence in Tulcea
Tulcea (; also known by other alternative names) is a city in Northern Dobruja, Romania. It is the administrative center of Tulcea County, and had a population of 73,707 . One village, Tudor Vladimirescu, is administered by the city.
Names
The ...
, which includes the parishes from Tulcea, Sulina, Mahmudia, Sarichioi, Periprava, Chilia Veche, Mila 23, Sfiştovca;
* Eparchy of the USA, residing in Oregon
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, which includes the parishes from the U.S., Canada, and Australia;
* Western Eparchy, based in Turin
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(Italy), which includes the parishes from Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Austria, and Hungary;
* Eparchy of the Baltic States, residing in Jēkabpils
Jēkabpils (; german: Jakobstadt; pl, Jakubów) is a state city in Jēkabpils Municipality in southeastern Latvia roughly halfway between Riga and Daugavpils and spanning the Daugava River. Historic Jēkabpils lies on the left bank, in Selonia ...
, comprising the parishes from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
See also
*Lipovans
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, flag_caption = Flag of the Lipovans
, image = Evstafiev-lipovane-slava-cherkeza.jpg
, caption = Lipovans during a ceremony in front of the Lipovan church in the Romanian village of Slava Cercheză in 200 ...
External links
Official website
References
Eastern Orthodoxy in Romania Old Believer movement {{orthodoxy-stub