Beglopopovtsy

Beglopopovtsy (Russian: беглопоповцы, IPA: [bʲɪɡləpɐˈpoft͡sɨ], "followers of runaway priests") was one of the denominations among the Popovtsy, who belonged to the Old Believers.

In the second half of the 18th century, the Beglopopovtsy formed a group at the Rogozhskoye cemetery in Moscow.

They represented the more moderate conservative opposition, who strove to continue religious and church life as it had existed before the reforms of Nikon.

They recognized ordained priests from the new style Russian Orthodox church who joined the Old Believers and who had denounced the Nikonian reforms.

In 1859, the number of Old Believer bishops in Russia reached ten, and they established their own episcopate, the so-called Belokrinitskaya hierarchy.