Orthodox old ritualistic church
The Orthodox Old Ritualist Church , Lipovan Church of the Old Rite or Lipovan Orthodox Old Ritualist Church , together with the Russian Orthodox Old Ritualist Church , is one of the two Old Believing Churches that belong to the hierarchy of Belaja Kriniza (the Orthodox Churches ).
history
The Lipovans are Russian Old Believers who fled from persecution in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The head of the church bears the title of Archbishop of Belaya Krinitsa and Metropolitan of all Orthodox Christians . His actual official seat is in Bila Krynyzja (Russian Belaja Kriniza , Romanian Fântâna-Albă ) a village in the Chernivtsi Oblast , Ukraine , where a significant Lipovan minority still lives today. However, the bishop's seat was moved to Brăila in Romania in 1940 . Metropolitan Leonti has been the head of the Orthodox old ritualist church since October 24, 1996 .
organization
- Eparchy of Brăila and Tulcea
- Eparchy of Slava
- Eparchy of Bukovina and Moldova
- Eparchy of North America, Western Europe, Australia
- Eparchy of Georgia