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1666-1667 - Council of
Moscow (Pan-Orthodox Synod), convened by Russian Emperor Alexis,
presided over by Patriarch Païsius of Alexandria, and attended by
Patriarchs Macarius of Antioch and Joasaph of Moscow, Metropolitans
Athanasius of Iconium (representing the Ecumenical Patriarch), Ananias
of Sinai (representing the Patriarch of Jerusalem), and several bishops
and fathers, condemn the Old Ritualists (who refused to comply with
corrections made in order to comply with the Church's liturgical unity,
such as celebrating feastdays on the same day as the rest of the
Orthodox Churches, making the sign of the cross with three fingers
instead of two, not kneeling on Sundays, etc); and forbids the
iconographic depiction of the Holy Trinity with God the Father as an old
man and the Holy Spirit as a dove, due to the fact that it transgresses
the rules of Orthodox iconography as expressed by the Seventh Ecumenical
Council, and because the form of this image is of unorthodox Western
origin.
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