Ioannity

The Ioannity ( Russian Иоанниты , wiss. Transliteration Ioannity ; Eng. Ioannites ) are a Russian sect of followers of John of Kronstadt († 1908 ) who saw in him a "God personified"; his visions became the basis of a "new faith". The saint himself distanced himself from this sect during his lifetime.

In 1980, no more than a thousand Ioannity were scattered in Ukraine , the North Caucasus , the Voronezh , Kursk , Lipetsk and Tambov oblasts .

See also

• List of Russian denominations outside the Russian Orthodox Church

literature

• Nadieszda Kizenko: A Prodigal Saint. Father John of Kronstadt and the Russian People. Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park Pa. 2000, ISBN 0-271-01976-X ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
• Wolfgang Heller:  Johannes von Kronstadt. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 3, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-035-2 , Sp. 448-451.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{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). 
2. ↑ Johannes (Ioann) von Kronstadt in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints