Abstract
to condemn a rebellious Russian archpriest who refused to obey Nikon, Patriarch of Russia. the council-on the Sunday after the Ascension, May 18-relates the Arab clergyman, our master celebrated with Patriarch Nikon in the cathedral, where they anathematized the priest .... Following the liturgy the Patriarch of Antioch gave a sermon concerning the priest, through an interpreter, and likened him to Arius, archpriest in Alexandria for this man was archpriest in Moscow. The Patriarch then excommunicated the Moscow archpriest together with all his followers, and the singers and clergy chanted against him thrice 'Anathema.' After the liturgy we went to dine with the Patriarch of Moscow.' The excommunicated archpriest was a certain Ivan Neronov, the most popular and ardent preacher of the Russian moral and religious revival in Nizhni-Novgorod and Moscow during the period 1630-1650. Neronov had rebelled against some ritualistic innovations introduced in the Russian Church by Patriarch Nikon, and remained the latter's adament and implacable adversary. His excommunication was the first instance of the Church Council's condemnation of the supporters of the old rites, and led later to the formation of a schism within the
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