Early Modern · 1666–1667
The Acts of the Great Moscow Council
The Council of Moscow
What it is
The council that deposed Patriarch Nikon, confirmed his liturgical corrections, and anathematised those who kept the old rites and the two-fingered cross.
Why it lasted
The document that created the Old Believer schism, splitting Russian Orthodoxy permanently over the sign of the cross and the spelling of a name.
Where to read it
This work is in the public domain and can be read in full, free, at the archives below. The Library catalogues it; it does not host the text.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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