Great Moscow Synod
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The Great Moscow Synod (
Patriarch Nikon of Moscow.[1]
The council condemned the famous
Raskol. Avvakum and other leading Old Believers were brought to the synod from their prisons. Since they refused to revise their views, the Old Believer priests were defrocked, anathemized and sentenced to life imprisonment in distant monasteries.[1]
One of the decisions in the synod was a specific ban on a number of depictions of God the Father and the Holy Spirit, which then also resulted in a whole range of other icons being placed on the forbidden list.[3]
References
- ^ ISBN 0-88141-090-X.
- ^ Angold, Michael, ed. (2006). Cambridge History of Christianity. Vol. 5: Eastern Christianity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 320.
- ISBN 1-86189-118-0.