Chapel consent ( Old Man's consent , Nikolaev bespopovtsy , Safontievtsy ) - Old Believers - bespopovtsy , originally former priests , but because of persecution, especially intensified under Emperor Nicholas I , who remained without the priesthood.
History
It was formed in the first half of the 19th century, having come out of the bowels of beglopoping . Constantly experiencing difficulties with the priests, and during the persecution of the Old Believers during the reign of Nicholas I, finding themselves without them at all, a group of Old Believers-beglopopovtsy living in the region of Vitebsk decided to completely abandon the priests and replace them with mentors or church leaders (from the laity).
Chapels became one of the dominant consents in the Ural region. Some of the chapels maintained contact with the Irgiz sketas, receiving Holy Gifts from there. Chapels were also present among the Old Believers of the Volga region and were very numerous among the Ural Cossacks.
Services began to be held in chapels (hence the name of consent). Over time, the chapels actually turned into bespopovtsev, although they do not rank themselves among them.
Divine services preserve some vestiges of priestly practice, in some communities they read "forgiveness" to the absent priest and bow down. Chapels do not cross the Old Believers of other consents.
In the second half of the XIX century, chapels were already in place in Siberia and the Far East . After the events of 1917, thousands of followers of the chapel consent fled to China and settled there in Xinjiang and Manchuria . After the proclamation of the PRC, most of them emigrated to Australia , New Zealand and some countries of South America . In the 1960s, more than a thousand chapels moved from Brazil to the United States , and in the 1970s, some of them moved to Canada .
In the 1980s, part of the chapels of North America and Australia decided to restore the institution of the priesthood and joined the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church of Romania . Similar processes were noted in Russian chapels.
In the 1990s, part of the chapels became one-man
See also
- Zaitsev, Danila Terentevich
Literature
- Bezgodov A.A. Chapel Consent. A brief historical overview and current situation // Calendar of the Old Orthodox Pomeranian Church for 2010
- Vurgaft S.G., Ushakov I.A. Old Believers. Faces, objects, events and symbols. The experience of the encyclopedic dictionary // Family - Old Believers of Transbaikalia.
- Pokrovsky N. N. Cathedral decrees of the Old Believers-chapels of the east of Russia of the XVIII – XX centuries. as a historical source
- Chapel consent // Etnolog.ru
- Yukhimenko E. M., Maltsev A. I., Ageeva E. A. Bespopovtsy // Orthodox Encyclopedia . - M .: Church Scientific Center "Orthodox Encyclopedia" , 2002. - T. IV. - S. 702-724. - 752 s. - 39,000 copies. - ISBN 5-89572-009-9 .