Old Calendarist movement

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The Old Calendarist movement is a traditionalist Eastern Orthodox faction that rejects the revised church calendar and often espouses a rigorist, separatist stance toward mainstream Orthodoxy.

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instanceOf Eastern Orthodox traditionalist movement
religious movement
claimsContinuityWith pre-reform Eastern Orthodox practice
contrastsWith New Calendarist Orthodox Churches
disciplinaryEmphasis strict approach to church canons
strict fasting rules
doctrineStanceOnCalendarReformers often regards calendar reformers as schismatic
doctrineStanceOnEcumenism generally anti-ecumenist
doctrineStanceOnSacraments often questions validity of sacraments in mainstream Orthodoxy
emergedInCentury 20th century
emergedInContextOf calendar reforms in Eastern Orthodox Churches
geographicDistribution Bulgaria
Greece
Romania
Russia
diaspora communities
hasBranch Bulgarian Old Calendarist movement
Greek Old Calendarist movement
Romanian Old Calendarist movement
Russian Old Calendarist groups
hasMainCharacteristic adherence to the Julian calendar
ecclesiastical rigorism
liturgical conservatism
rejection of the Revised Julian calendar
separatist ecclesiology
hasSchisms multiple internal schisms over ecclesiology and ecumenism
internalCharacteristic high degree of fragmentation
multiple non-communing synods
languageOfWorship often uses traditional liturgical languages
liturgicalPractice celebration of fixed feasts according to the Julian calendar
traditional Eastern Orthodox rites
opposes adoption of the Gregorian calendar for fixed feasts
calendar reform in Eastern Orthodoxy
rejectsCalendar Gregorian calendar for liturgical use
Revised Julian calendar
relatedTo Bulgarian Orthodox Church
Church of Greece
Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
Greek Orthodox Church
Romanian Orthodox Church
Russian Orthodox Church
religiousTradition Eastern Orthodoxy
selfIdentification Genuine Orthodox
True Orthodox
theologicalOrientation conservative
traditionalist
usesCalendar Julian calendar
viewsOnMainstreamOrthodoxy often considers mainstream Orthodox Churches compromised
viewsOnModernism opposes theological and liturgical modernism

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Orthodoxy or Death associatedWith Old Calendarist movement
Old Calendarist movement hasBranch Greek Old Calendarist movement
linked to: Old Calendarist movement
Old Calendarist movement hasBranch Romanian Old Calendarist movement
linked to: Old Calendarist movement