Josephite movement

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Josephites ({{langx|ru|иосифляне|translit=Iosiflyane}}) were a movement in Russian Orthodox Church, originated in the USSR at the end of 1927. The name is derived from the name of Metropolitan Joseph (Petrovykh) of Petrograd. Being part of a broader current of {{Interlanguage link|Non-commemorators|lt=non-commemorators|ru|Непоминающие}}, the Josephites tried to create a centralized administrative structure headed by their de facto leader, Archbishop Demetrius (Lyubimov). The Josephites were the most numerous and united church movement among the non-commemorates. According to historians Mikhail Shkarovsky and Alexey Beglov, the number of parishes that joined Josephism reached about 2.5 thousand. Leningrad became the center of the movement, and Josephism was also widely spread in the Vyatka, Izhevsk, Novgorod, Voronezh, Tambov, Krasnodar, Kiev and Kharkov dioceses.Беглов А. Л., Шкаровский М. В. [https://www.pravenc.ru/text/1681351.html Катакомбное движение] // Православная энциклопедия. — М., 2013. — Т. XXXI : «Каракалла — Катехизация». — С. 643-650. — 752 с. — 33 000 экз. — ISBN 978-5-89572-031-8.

The resistance began after Metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky) issued {{Interlanguage link|Declaration of Metropolitan Sergius|lt=a formal declaration|ru|Декларация митрополита Сергия}} to all members of the Russian Orthodox Church, in which Sergius called for loyalty toward the Soviet government: "We need to show, not in words but in deeds, that not only those who are indifferent to Orthodox Christianity, not only those who have betrayed it, but also its most zealous adherents, for whom it is dear as truth and life, with all its dogmas and traditions, with all its canonical and liturgical structure, can be faithful citizens of the Soviet Union, loyal to the Soviet government. We want to be Orthodox and at the same time recognize the Soviet Union as our civil motherland, whose joys and successes are our joys and successes and whose failures are our failures."{{Cite journal|last=Shkarovskii|first=Mikhail V.|date=1995|title=The Russian Orthodox Church versus the State: The Josephite Movement, 1927-1940|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/slavic-review/article/abs/russian-orthodox-church-versus-the-state-the-josephite-movement-19271940/0A539BC0D966E17B59FE79E811AB06C9|journal=Slavic Review|language=en|volume=54|issue=2|pages=365–384|doi=10.2307/2501626|issn=0037-6779|jstor=2501626|s2cid=163220261 }}{{Cite web|title=Декларация митрополита Сергия - Православная электронная библиотека читать скачать бесплатно|url=https://lib.pravmir.ru/library/readbook/1339|website=lib.pravmir.ru}}