Church Renewal

Definition

Melissino’s conditia proposed reducing fasts, shortening services, diminishing feast days, changing clerical marriage rules, and other reforms that the material says were later taken up by early 20th-century renovationists.

Episodes

• 050 — History of the Russian Orthodox Church — Topic 13

Related Concepts

• Renovationist Precursor

Biblical References

• John 18:36 — Jesus replied, “My kingdom is not from this world. If my kingdom were from this world, my servants would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish authorities. But as it is, my kingdom is not from here.