page_title: Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church
hierarchical_section_title: Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church
caption_attribution_description: English: Russian Old Believers Chapel in Nikolaevsk, Alaska was built in 1983. Sergey Lipolit from Romania painted inside and outside the chapel. Русский: Русская старообрядческая церковь в Николаевске, Аляска, США
context_page_description: The Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church is an Eastern Orthodox Church of the Old Believers tradition, which rejected the liturgical and canonical reforms of Patriarch Nikon in the second half of 17th century. It is one of the two Old Believers churches that belong to the Belokrinitskaya Hierarchy - together with the Orthodox Old-Rite Church, sometimes also called Lipovan Orthodox Old-Rite Church.
  Since the 18th century until the Council of 1988, the official self-designation of this Church was the Old Orthodox Church of Christ which should not be confused with Russian Old-Orthodox Church, another church of the Old Believers. Drevlepravoslavie was the common self-designation of the Old Believers and their cause since the 17th century.
  The head of the Church carries the title of Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia, with residence at the Rogozhskoye cemetery in Moscow. The current head of the Church, Metropolitan Korniliy was elected by the Most Holy Council on October 18, 2005. He was installed as Metropolitan on October 23, 2005.
context_section_description: The Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church (or Russian Orthodox Oldritualist Church, Russian Orthodox Old-Ritualist Church) (Russian: Русская Православная Старообрядческая Церковь) is an Eastern Orthodox Church of the Old Believers tradition, which rejected the liturgical and canonical reforms of Patriarch Nikon in the second half of 17th century (Old Believers). It is one of the two Old Believers churches that belong to the Belokrinitskaya Hierarchy - together with the Orthodox Old-Rite Church, sometimes also called Lipovan Orthodox Old-Rite Church. 
  Since the 18th century until the Council of 1988, the official self-designation of this Church was the Old Orthodox Church of Christ (Древлеправославная Церковь Христова) which should not be confused with Russian Old-Orthodox Church, another church of the Old Believers. Drevlepravoslavie ("Old/Ancient Orthodoxy") was the common self-designation of the Old Believers and their cause since the 17th century.
  The head of the Church carries the title of Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia (since 1988), with residence at the Rogozhskoye cemetery in Moscow. The current head of the Church, Metropolitan Korniliy (Titov) (formerly, the archbishop of Kazan and Vyatka) was elected by the Most Holy Council on October 18, 2005.  He was installed as Metropolitan on October 23, 2005.
caption: Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church in Nikolaevsk, Alaska
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