• Benjamin (Fedchenkov), went Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in 1923 Platon (Rozhdestvensky), went Northern-American metropolis in 1924 Eulogius (Georgievsky)...
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    Christian theology and liturgy. During the early modern period, a series of schisms gave rise to rival patriarchates, sometimes two, sometimes three. In the...
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  • established church, the initiators of Edinoverie are said to be Metropolitan Platon of Moscow (the senior hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church) and Archbishop...
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    of Constantinople. In the mid-17th century, a series of reforms led to a schism in the Russian Church, as the Old Believers opposed the changes. The ROC...
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    bishops who did not recognize the authority of the Synod, led by Metropolitan Platon (Rozhdestvensky); this group formed the American Metropolia, the predecessor...
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  • declares the Metropolia to be in schism and establishes the Russian Exarchate of North America (1933–1970); Platon grants canonical release to Syrian...
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  • of Antioch (1928–1958) Arsenius II (Haddad), Patriarch of Antioch (schism, 1930–1931) Theodosius VI (Abourjaily), Patriarch of Antioch (1958–1970) Elias...
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    the influence of sources from Hellenistic Judaism, Zoroastrianism, and Platonism on the Nag Hammadi texts. Since the 1990s, the category of "Gnosticism"...
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  • Marcionism (category Schisms in Christianity)
    presents a moral critique of the Old Testament from the standpoint of Platonism. According to Harnack, the sect may have led other Christians to introduce...
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  • Vladimir (Bogoyavlensky) First hierarch martyred by the Bolsheviks. Bishop Platon (Kulbusch) Alexander Schmorell, member of the White Rose Resistance group...
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