Patriarch Nikon of Moscow

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Patriarch Nikon of Moscow was a 17th-century Russian Orthodox leader whose liturgical reforms and conflicts with the tsar helped trigger the major schism that divided the Russian Church into official and Old Believer factions.

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New Jerusalem Monastery ("Patriarch Nikon")
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Schism of the Russian Orthodox Church
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Schism of the Russian Orthodox Church ("Patriarch Nikon")
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