# Stoglav

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{{Short description|Decisions of the Russian church council of 1551}}
{{Italic title}}thumb|200px|One of the manuscripts containing ''One Hundred Chapters''
The '''''Book of One Hundred Chapters''''', also called '''''Stoglav''''' ({{Lang|ru|Стоглав}}) in [Russian](/source/Russian_language) ("Hundred chapters"), is a collection of decisions of the [Russian church council of 1551](/source/Stoglavy_Council) that regulated the [canon law](/source/Canon_law_of_the_Eastern_Orthodox_Church) and ecclesiastical life in the [Tsardom of Russia](/source/Tsardom_of_Russia), especially the everyday life of the Russian clergy.<ref>Jack Kollmann. ''The Moscow Stoglav ('Hundred Chapters') Church Council of 1551'' (Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1978).</ref>

The book is shaped in the form of answers to some 100 questions posed by [Ivan IV of Russia](/source/Ivan_IV_of_Russia). A constant theme running through the chapters is the Byzantine ''[symphonia](/source/Symphonia_(theology))'' (harmony) between the '[priesthood](/source/priesthood)' and the '[kingdom](/source/State_(polity))'. 

The ''Book of Hundred Chapters'' canonized the native Muscovite rituals and practices at the expense of those accepted in [Greece](/source/Greece) and other Eastern Orthodox countries. As a result this church code was never accepted by the [Russian monks](/source/Rossikon) residing on [Mount Athos](/source/Mount_Athos).<ref>[Steven Runciman](/source/Steven_Runciman). ''The Great Church in Captivity''. Cambridge University Press, 1985. Page 329.</ref>

In the mid-17th century, the [Old Believers](/source/Old_Believers) championed the ''Stoglav'' in order to undermine [Patriarch Nikon](/source/Patriarch_Nikon)'s authority and his ecclesiastical reforms. The [Great Moscow Synod](/source/Great_Moscow_Synod) of 1667 condemned the ''Stoglav'' and its practices as [heretical](/source/Heresy_in_Christianity) and banned the book from usage for 200 years.<ref>
''Cambridge History of Christianity: Volume 5, Eastern Christianity''. Cambridge University Press, 2006. Page 320.</ref> This contributed to a great [schism](/source/Schism_(Christianity)) of the Russian church known as the [Raskol](/source/Raskol).

There are at least 100 manuscripts of the ''Stoglav'', all of them produced by the Old Believers. The official church historians of the 18th and 19th centuries (such as [Platon Levshin](/source/Platon_Levshin)) discarded these texts as spurious. Their authenticity was reasserted by historian [Ivan Belyayev](/source/Ivan_Dmitriyevich_Belyayev) in 1863.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://dlib.rsl.ru/viewer/01002917943#?page=1|title=Просмотр документа - dlib.RSL.ru}}</ref>

== References ==
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Category:Russian Orthodox Church in Russia
Category:1550s in Russia
Category:1551 in Europe
Category:1551 books
Category:Canon law of the Eastern Orthodox Church
Category:History of the Russian Orthodox Church

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