Old Ritualists in Communion With The See of Rome
Some Old Believers have been received into communion with the Catholic Church as Eastern Catholics maintaining their distinctive rites, becoming, in effect Greek-Catholic equivalents of the Edinovertsy. The most famous such convert, Potapy Emelianov was a former Edinoverie priest in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. In 1918, he was received into the Russian Catholic Church with his entire parish. He later survived a ten year sentence at Solovki prison camp and died in 1936. He is now under investigation for possible Canonisation.
According to a 2005 interview, Russian Catholic priest Sergei Golovanov stated that there was then one Old-Ritualist Catholic priest active on Russian soil.
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