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The Old Believers recognise Saints that were Canonised before the Schism of the Russian Church also known as the Raskol. The saints are ordered in alphabetical order:

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Avvakum Petrov (XVI century), he was a Protopope of the Old Believers who Anathematized Patriarch Nikon of Moscow, who Reformed the Russian Orthodox Church. He was eventually Martyred in Pustozersk.