OBers have no episcopate. So they got their priests from the ROC before the 1925. After 1925, they got them from the ROCOR.I thought there were two types, and that one of them had an episcopacy?
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"I thought there were two types, and that one of them had an episcopacy?"
No. If that were so there would be some sort of an Old Believer Synod of bishops. There is not, and never was.
OBers will eventually either die out or be reconciled to the Church.
I agree that SV ecclesiology could mesh with Orthodoxy, but SV piety does not mesh. St. John Maximovitch solved this for Old Catholic converts to Orthodoxy in France and Belgium by permitting them to keep the Tridentine liturgy, but only on a temporary basis. In the long run, Westerners coming into the Church with their Western piety learn they really have to change. It's like getting a spiritual lobotomy.