Lipovan
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Lipovans or Lippovans are the Old Believers, mostly of the Russian ethnical origin, residing in the delta of the Danube River in Tulcea county of eastern Romania and in south part of Odes'ka oblast' in Ukraine. It is estimated that there are about 40,000 Lipovans.
They emigrated from Russia over 200 years ago as dissenters with the mainline Russian Orthodox Church. They settled along the Prut River in Moldova and in the Danube Delta. They have maintained strong religious traditions that predate the reforms of the Russian Orthodox Church undertaken during the reign of Patriarch Nikon. Main centre of Lipovan community in Ukraine is Vilkovo.
See also
Sources
- Second-Hand Souls: Selected Writing by Nichita Danilov (translated from Romanian by Sean Cotter), [1] (http://www.traktor.cz/twisted/second.html)
- Les Lipovenes, qui sont-ils?, in the French language, [2] (http://membres.lycos.fr/bucovine/page4.html)
- Council of Europe: Romanian Site of Citizenship, [3] (http://www.coe.int/T/e/Cultural_Co-operation/Education/E.D.C/Documents_and_publications/By_country/Romania/romanian_site.asp)
- Agnosticism/Atheism with Austin Cline: Romania: Religious Freedom Report 1999
- Lipovan's icons: The Bleschunov Municipal Museum of Personal Collections (http://www.museum-collections.odessa.ua/english/vilkovo.html)
[4] (http://atheism.about.com/library/irf/irf99/blirf_romania99.htm) at About.com uk:Липовани ro:Lipoveni