Old Believer

C39445
concept

An Old Believer is a member of a group of Eastern Orthodox Christians who rejected the 17th-century liturgical reforms of the Russian Orthodox Church and maintained older religious practices and traditions.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Old Believer canonical 2
Old Believer confession 1
Old Believer group 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: Old Believer
Generated description
An Old Believer is a member of a group of Eastern Orthodox Christians who rejected the 17th-century liturgical reforms of the Russian Orthodox Church and maintained older religious practices and traditions.

Instances (6)

Instance Via concept surface
Boyarina Feodosia Morozova
surface form: Feodosia Morozova
Popovtsy Old Believer group
Pomortsy Old Believer confession
Protopope Avvakum Old Believers leader
Fedoseevtsy Old Believer sect
Avvakum Petrov