bespopoftsi

Updated: May 21, 2025

One sect declared that, as there were no longer faithful priests, they were cut off from all the Sacraments except Baptism, which could be administered by laymen. These "Bespopoftsi," or priestless people, were unable to marry; and to this in a land where the economic unit, is not man, but man and wife, where the ties of family life are so strong was due their further splitting.

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