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Edinoverie scheme, and the government would usually treat those within the arrangement preferentially over those who rejected the compromise. For example, in 1818 the government prohibited the printing of Old Ritualist religious books other than those from Edinoverie printing houses. At the same time, parishioners of "regular" Orthodox churches were discouraged by the authorities from joining Old-Rite parishes.
302:), the document regulating the "union" between the official church and the Old Believers. Although the Metropolitan's rules satisfied some of the wishes of the Old Believers, the Edinoverie parishioners nevertheless remained second-class citizens within the Church: for example, the Old-Rite priests were still normally not permitted to administer sacraments to the mainstream Orthodox believers.
204:) accepted a similar arrangement. In February 1781, an archbishop issued a letter, authorising them to set up a church legally and conduct services in accordance with traditional rites. That was done by consecrating as a church the wooden chapel that the Old Believers of Znamenka had built in 1776.
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Orthodox Church and various Old Believer groups, who did not recognise the changes to liturgy and the official translations of Scripture made under the
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In August 1785, a government decree was promulgated, providing for the organization of "Old
Believer" churches within the established Church, although they still were not to have their own bishops or any sort of organizational centre. Nevertheless, this point is usually considered the start of the
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Throughout the 19th century, the attitude of the established church toward the
Edinoverie may be described as that of tolerating a "necessary evil": a tool to bring the "dissenters" into the fold of the Mother Church. On occasions, Church authorities were quite forceful in converting Old Believer
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294:, acceptable to the flock), and permitting construction of Old Ritualist churches. The chief bishop of the established church, Metropolitan Platon of Moscow, wrote the "Eleven Articles of Edinoverie" (
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Believers themselves, and utilising the pre-
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area, began to contact civil and ecclesiastical authorities with regards to the possibility of "legalising" the priests of the
Popovtsy. After a number of rejections, he gained the support of
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service books and rites. The offer was rejected by the Old
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344:, the first Edinoverie church was set up in 1799. In 1917, the Edinovertsy of Saint Petersburg received their first bishop (Bishop Simon of
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175:of Sloviansk and Kherson, covering much of eastern
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28:Edinoverie
411:is open.
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199:Melitopol
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158:Astrakhan
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169:Poltava
154:Kherson
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