Belokrinitskaya Hierarchy (Russian: Белокриницкая иерархия, Belokrinitskoe Soglasiye, Russian: Белокриницкое согласие) is the first full and stable church hierarchy created by the Old Believers.
[1] The Belokrinitskaya hierarchy was created in 1846 by acceptance of the Greek Metropolitan Ambrose.
[2] The hierarchy is called after the name of the see of the First Hierarch Belaya Krinitsa, Bukovina, in Austria-Hungary (currently Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine).
Some confusions may occur when using the term Belokrinitskoe soglasie in respect to a schism of Okruzhniki (Encyclicalists) and Neokruzhniki (Non-Encyclicalists).
From one point of view, both sides of a schism originated from the Rogozhskoe cemetery administrative system and so both belong to the Belokrinitskoe soglasie From the other side, the Rogozhskoe cemetery priests and authorities were Okruzhniki almost entirely, so the term Belokrinitskoe soglasie can sometimes mean Okruzhniki.