Feodosian

The fedoseevtsy , Theodosians or Fedossejewzy ( Russian Федосеевцы , Wiss. Transliteration Fedoseevcy ) are a priester loose denomination of Believers from the north-west Russia that after its founder Feodosy Wassiljew ( Феодосий Васильев , Feodosiy Vasil'ev is named) (1661-1711), and the end was founded in the 17th century.

She had an uncompromising attitude towards the autocracy and the Orthodox Church and lived a strict asceticism .

In the 1820s / 30s, some of the believers joined the Pormorski Tolk ( поморский толк ) and Jedinowerije ( единоверие ). For a long time, the spiritual center was the community of the Preobrazhenskoe Cemetery in Moscow, founded in 1771 by the merchant Ilya Alexejewitsch Kowylin (1731–1809) .

Feodosians were widespread in the Russian governorates of Kaunas , Suwałki , Vilnius and Vitebsk, as well as in Riga.

literature

• Church in the East. Studies on Eastern European Church History and Church Studies , 29 (1986)
• Peter Hauptmann : Russia's Old Believers ; Göttingen 2005
• SW Bulgakov: Sprawotschnik po jeresjam, sektam i raskolam (reference work on heresies, sects and church divisions). Moskwa: Sovremennik 1994, article: Fedosejewzy ( online text ) (Russian)

See also

• List of Russian denominations outside the Russian Orthodox Church
• Ilya Alexejewitsch Kowylin

Web links

• Theodosians (Fedoseevtsy)
• Theodosians
• Theodosians (Fedoseevtsy)
• Glossary (Fedoseevcy)
• Wassiljew, Feodossi (Russian)
• Article Feodosijaner in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)http: //vorlage_gse.test/1%3D115577~2a%3D~2b%3DFeodosijaner

Footnotes

1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Исторический словарь - поиск: article Федосеевцы ; on: MirSlovarei.com: Мир словарей - Коллекция словарей и энциклопедий.
3. ↑ Исторический словарь - поиск: article Федосеевцы ; on: MirSlovarei.com: Мир словарей - Коллекция словарей и энциклопедий
4. ↑ Bulgakow ( Memento of the original from November 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. has in the Feodosian entry the sections: Feodosians in Poland and Feodosians in Riga.