Adherentes Antiquate

The Adherentes Antiquate (Anglish: Old-Fashioned Adherents), were a group of Ebrarian Christians who historically adhered to traditional, pre-Reformation forms of liturgy and theology within the Church of Ebrary after the break with the Orthodox communion and the Ebraricist Reformation.

Originally, these Christians followed the practices of Orthodox Christianity closely, and their presence was largely tolerated by the moderate Reformed establishment of the Church of Ebrary so long as they respected the primacy of the Bishop of Ceres. However, many Adherentes Antiquate continued to practice infant baptism despite the rejection of this practice by the Ebrarian Church, resulting in varying degrees of persecution. In the 18th century, important scholars of the Adherentes Antiquate authored the Prayer Guide of the Old-Fashioned Adherents, which outlines the liturgy of their movement. By the 19th century a majority of Adherentes Antiquate had taken up the practice of iconoclasm and were therefore more closely aligned with the doctrine of the Enlightened Aroman Church. The iconoclastic denomination of the Adherentes Antiquate were generally termed Persistas while those who continued to use icons were termed Eccetistas.

After the disestablishment of the Church of Ebrary, the two camps of the Adherentes Antiquate split off to form the iconoclast (Persista) Orthodox Aroman Church in Ebrary (1939) and the iconodulist (Eccetistas) Ebrarian Orthodox Catholic Church (1940). The formation of these two churches effectively ended the Adherentes Antiquate movement within the Church of Ebrary, although these two successor-churches are sometimes described with the term.

Factions

Iconodulistic (Eccetistas)

The Eccetistas take their name from the proclamation Ecce!, which means "See!" in Anglish. This group continued the practice of using icons in religious worship, carrying this tradition from the Orthodox church.

Iconoclastic (Persistas)

Under the influence of the Aroman Church and other iconoclastic movements, this faction carried on most Orthodox beliefs and practices, continued to use the Prayer Guide of the Old-Fashioned Adherents, but rejected the usage of icons. Originating in the early 19th century, by the end of that century most Adherentes Antiquate were considered Persistas. The epithet Persista derives from an Ebrarian word for "blind".