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| The same was true of the
"one faith" [edinoverie] churches, which
were established in the nineteenth century
to lure old believers into the Russian
Orthodox Church fold by allowing parishes
to use old rites while submitting to the
Russian Orthodox Church hierarchy. Still
later in the nineteenth century, Old
Believers of the Belokrinitsy hierarchy
opened several parishes in the Perm
Province near the Stroganor factory town
of Ocher. Russian Orthodox Church missionary, Archimandrite Palladii, after a brief visit to Sepych in the 1850s, cautioned in his report that the destruction of the monastic settlements built by Sepych's first wave of dissenters did not stop the spread of religious dissent in the area. He attributed the growth of Old Belief in the Upper Karma throughout the eighteenth and early nineteenth century to the absence of a Russian Orthodox parish and the unwillingness of the Russian Orthodox priests to preach in Sepych. Even when the Russian Orthodox mission began, its representatives enjoyed mixed results. In 1833-1835, not long after the opening of a concerted campaign against the Old Belief throughout the Perm region, a Russian Orthodox Mission Church was built in the centre of Sepych and a Priest assigned to the town. A preference for married secular clergy developed in Kievan times. |