Raskol
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Raskol
- (Christianity, historical) A mid-17th-century schism that split the Russian Orthodox Church into an official church and the Old Believers movement, triggered by the reforms of Patriarch Nikon in 1653, which aimed to establish uniformity between Greek and Russian church practices.