Introduction
The Old Believers (also called Ancient Orthodox) are those Christians who separated from the Russian Orthodox church in protest against church reforms introduced by Patriarch Nikon of Moscow between 1652–66, and remained faithful to the ancient rites, dogmas and ecclesiastical structures of Russian Orthodoxy as it was before the reforms. Some of the Old Believers migrated to Siberia; others to Romania.
Over time, the Old Believers founded a center at the monastery of Belaya Krinitsa ("White Fountain") in Bukovina, then part of Austria-Hungary, now in Ukraine. The Old Believers founded the monastery of Belaya Krinitsa, as a place of freedom, thanks to laws enacted in 1783 by the Emperor Joseph II. According to reports from the Russian government, after the middle of the 17th century about 4,000 Old Believers lived in Austria, mostly in Bukovina, on the border with Russia at the Prut river, and about 36,000 lived the Ottoman Empire. Of the latter, the majority lived in Dobruja, north at the Danube delta.
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