Bespopovtsy (Безпоповцы, `priestless`) is one of the two major strains of Old Believers, the one that rejects priests and a number of church rites, such as the Eucharist. The reasoning behind this is a belief that any priest or hierarch who has used the Nikonian Rites has forfeited Apostolic Succession. There are several confessions of.....
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• (n.) A Russian sect. See Raskolnik.
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Bez`po·pov'tsy noun [ Russian ;
bez without +
popovtsy , a derivative of
pop priest.] A Russian sect. See
Raskolnik .
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