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==Life==
Avvakum was born on November 20, 1621 in the village of Grigorovo, near Nizhni Novgorod, into a priestly family. His father Peter was a priest and his mother, Marija, after being widowed became a [[nun]] under the name Marfa. His mother was very pious and and impressed this piety upon Avvakum. He married a blacksmith’s daughter, Anastasia. After his mother died he moved to another village. He was [[ordainordination|ordained]]ed a [[deacon]] at the age of twenty one. Two years later was ordained a priest and then eight years later raised to [[archpriest]].
Fr. Avvakum was a man of spiritual intensity and was very active as a priest, with many spiritual children and traveled extensively, even to Siberia preaching and teaching the Word of God. In the 1640s he joined the Russian revival movement, Zealots of Piety, but on the ascension of Nikon as Patriarch of Russia in 1652, Avvakum and his followers turned against the revival movement as they felt Patr. Nikon’s policies and actions were undermining the authority of the Church [[hierarch]]y. Then, in 1653, Fr. Avvakum with Ivan Nernov and others, including his wife and family, were deported to exile in Siberia by the patriarch for their opposition to his policies and in particular the changes in the ancient rites and practices.
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