My interest in the study of Old Calendarist movement was stirred by an
unexpected and painful event in the recent history of the Romanian Orthodox
Church: in 2010 priest Nichita Pașcan, the confessor of Brâncoveni Monastery –
a convent in the region of Oltenia, together with 29 of its 65 dwellers (nuns),
left the convent and joined an Old-Calendarist group in Greece. This prompted me to investigate the past in order to understand the phenomenon itself, since the
emergence of this movement in 1924, its evolution throughout various historical
periods, and its impact on today’s soc[...]
