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'''Priestly old Old Believers ''' or '''Popovtsy ''' are those [[Old Believers ]] who in principle consider such churches who have adopted the ritual observations rejected by the Old Believers to be schismatic[[schism]]atic, but not necessarily [[heresy|heretic]]. All Old Believers consider the practices of the post-Nikonitan Russian Church and other similar churches to have a ritual observance alien to what they consider truly Orthodox. However, the priestly Old Believers Popovtsy do consider it possible to receive "new ritualists" with myrrhon, since Priestly Old Believers Popovtsy discern between heretics and schismatics. As a consequence of the fact that some Priests [[priest]]s never accepted the ritual changes and had kept myrrhon consecrated before the schism, which could be mixed with olive oil, the Priestly Old Believers Popovtsy received "nikonitans" with myrrhon and sometimes also got the opportunity to receive Priests priests and finnally finally also Metropolit [[Metropolitan]] Ambrosios of Sarajevo, which enabled them to establish an episcopal hierarchy.

Priestly Old Believers Popovtsy do, up to thisday, day receive "nikonitans" who have been properly [[baptism|baptized ]] with myrrhon, whereas the priestless always baptize [[conversion|converts ]] including priestly Old BelieversPopovtsy.

Some priestly Old Believers Popovtsy accepted the "edinover" Church which is a branch of the established Russian Church using the pre-Nikon rite, but the majority of Popovtsy never accepted this, since they consider the post-Nikon Church to be schismatic and thus not Orthodox, although not necessarily heretic.

But the majority of Priestly On dogmatic issues Popovtsy differ only slightly from "conservative" nikonitans. One difference is that Old Believers never accepted always baptize converts from the [[Roman Catholic Church]] since this, since they consider the post-Nikon Church to be schismatic and thus not Orthodox, although not necessarily is considered heretic.