CОДЕРЖАНИЕ ТАИНСТВА ПОКАЯНИЯ ПО МАТЕРИАЛАМ СТАРООБРЯДЧЕСКОЙ РУКОПИСИ В СВЕТЕ СОВРЕМЕННОГО ПРАВА

The article discusses some problems of public law, contained in the text of hand written document called A Rite of Confession from the collection of library of the nunnery of the Holy Trinity and the Savior in Wojnowo (Poland). Because the Old Believers did not recognize the jurisdiction of state authorities, considering the authorities as the embodiment of the Antichrist, all aspects of social life of the Old Believer’s community were governed by the provisions of ancient Byzantine canon law from Nomocanon and by traditional norms of ethics. The penalty for each offense was determined by confessor and could be defined by dint of the text of A Rite of Confession.