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Events on Wednesday 27 August 1681 2
1605 – 1681Patriarch Nikon (1605-1681)Died 27 August 1681, aged 76Patriarch of Moscow whose liturgical reforms caused the Raskol, the schism that split the Old Believers from the Russian Orthodox Church. He was deposed in 1666 and died on his way back from exile.
1605 – 1681Patriarch Nikon (1605-1681)Died 27 August 1681, aged 76Patriarch of Moscow whose liturgical reforms caused the Raskol, the schism that split the Old Believers from the Russian Orthodox Church. He was deposed in 1666 and died on his way back from exile.