Nikonites

Nikonites, also known as Nikonians, are followers of the main current of the Russian Orthodox Church, which accepted the reforms undertaken during the reign of Patriarch Nikon—as opposed to the Old Believers, who rejected the reforms and maintain strong religious traditions that predate them.^[1][2][3]

References

1. Sulikowska-Bełczowska, Aleksandra (5 January 2022). "The Communion of the Apostles and the Spiritual Eucharist in the Religious Thought and Art of the Old Believers". Religions. 13 (1): 50. doi:10.3390/rel13010050.
2. Lupinin, Nickolas (1974). The state of religion in a religious state: the Russian church in the reign of the Tsar Aleksei, 1645–1676 (Thesis). OCLC 5740977.
3. Glade, Shirley A. (1992). "A Heritage Discovered Anew: Russia's Reevaluation of Pre-Petrine Icons in the Late Tsarist and Early Soviet Periods". Canadian-American Slavic Studies. 26 (4): 145–195. doi:10.1163/221023992X00091.