Innocentists

The Innocentists or (after Russian) Innokentewzy ( Russian Иннокентьевцы , scientific transliteration Innokent'evcy ; Romanian. Inochentiștii ; English also Innokentevtsy , Innocentist Movement or Innocentists ) are an originally Russian sect . It was created in 1908 by the orthodox Hieromönk Innocent or Inochentie, from which its name is derived, of the Orthodox monastery of Balta : Ioan Levizor (Иван Левизор, 1875-1917) from Soroca in Bessarabia . He saw himself as the embodiment of the Holy Spirit , his followers were asked to give up property and family and a suicide cult was introduced. She was against the revolutionary movement and called for support for the Russian monarchy.

Today there are Innokentewzy ( Inochentiştii ) in the Republic of Moldova and in the southwest of Ukraine .

See also

• List of Russian denominations outside the Russian Orthodox Church

literature

• J. Eugene Clay: Apocalypticism in the Russian borderlands: Inochentie Levizor and his Moldovan followers. In: Religion, State and Society , 1465-3974, Volume 26, Issue 3, 1998, pp. 251-263

Web links

• Russification of the Church ("John Tzurcan, from near Soroca")
• Sekta innokentievtsev
• Innokentewzy

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://bisericasecreta.wordpress.com/2007/01/10/inochentistii/ , http://www.bibliotekar.ru/encSekt/76.htm
2. ↑ ^{a b} Mstislav Voskressensky: Православие и христианские разделения. St. Philaret Institute for Theological Studies in Moscow, archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; Retrieved July 19, 2017 (Russian).