Renovationism
Russian Christian movement, 1922–1946 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Renovationism[1] (Russian: обновленчество, romanized: obnovlenchestvo; from обновление, obnovlenie 'renovation, renewal') – also called Renovated Church (обновленческая церковь) or by metonymy the Living Church (Живая Церковь, Zhivaya Tserkov')[2] –, officially named Orthodox Russian Church (Православная Российская Церковь, Pravoslavnaya Rossiyskaya Tserkov'), and later Orthodox Church in the USSR (Православная Церковь в СССР, Pravoslavnaya Tserkov' v SSSR), was the official Christian Church in the Soviet Union in 1922–1946, which following the World War II was proclaimed as a religious movement that schismed from the Russian Orthodox Church in 1922. Sanctioned by the Soviet authorities, the movement ceased its operations in the late 1940s. In 1927 the movement was blessed by the future Patriarch Sergius of Moscow, a political move that allowed reformation of the modern Russian Orthodox Church in 1943 by Sergius (Stragorodsky).
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This movement originally begun as a grassroots movement among the Russian Orthodox clergy for the reformation of the Church, but was quickly influenced by the support of the Soviet secret services (CheKa, then GPU, NKVD), which had hoped to split and weaken the Russian Church by instigating schismatic movements within it.[3][4] The beginning of actual schism is usually considered to be in May 1922, when a group of Renovationist clergy laid claims to higher ecclesiastical authority in the Russian Church. Three days after the establishment of the new Church, the Soviet authorities arrested Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow on May 19.[4] In such manner both factions were calling each other names "Renovationites" and "Tikhonovites" (Russian: тихоновцы и обновленцы). The movement is considered to have ended with the death of its leader, Alexander Vvedensky, in 1946, although the last unrepentant Renovationist hierarch, Philaret (Yatsenko),[5] died in 1951.[6]
While the entire movement is often known as the Living Church, this was specifically the name of just one of the groups that comprised the larger Renovationist movement. By the time of the Moscow Council of 1923, three major groups had formed within the movement, representing different tendencies within Russian Renovationism: The Living Church of Vladimir Krasnitsky lobbied for the interests of married clergy; the Union of the Communities of the Ancient Apostolic Church (Союз общин древнеапостольской церкви - Содац SODATs) of Alexander Vvedensky; and the Union for the Renewal of the Church (Союз церковного возрождения) – the group of bishop Antonin Granovsky, whose interest was in liturgical reform; along with several minor groups.