AHC: Orthodox 'Protestantism'

With a POD any time after the East-West Schism, have a large-scale movement espousing values of a (Western) Protestant character (anti-corruption, ecclesiastical and personal austerity) develop within the Eastern Orthodox Church or one of its regional branches. I'm aware there were weird little sects floating about in Russia and the Middle East, but they never really took off to the same extent, say, Lutheranism did.
 
With a POD any time after the East-West Schism, have a large-scale movement espousing values of a (Western) Protestant character (anti-corruption, ecclesiastical and personal austerity) develop within the Eastern Orthodox Church or one of its regional branches. I'm aware there were weird little sects floating about in Russia and the Middle East, but they never really took off to the same extent, say, Lutheranism did.

ANY time?
OK I will start it today.
On second thought, better tomorrow. :)
 
ANY time?
OK I will start it today.
On second thought, better tomorrow. :)

But, isn't this in pre-1900?

On a different note, making the orthodox countries much richer would help. Or preventing the fall of the ERE altogether and somehow have it develop into the modern era.

A situation where there's a corrupt church and lots of mob anger is a little hard when you're fighting for survival daily..
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sect_of_Skhariya_the_Jew
The closest thing to Orthodox Protestants AFAIK.

And it even got the chance to be "big", sadly unused OTL
By the end of the 15th century, some of the adherents remained under the protection of Yelena Stefanovna and her son tsarevich Dmitry (grandson of Ivan III). However, in 1502 Dmitry was stripped of his title (transferred to Vasili III – son of Ivan III and Sophia Paleologue). As soon as Ivan III died in 1505, Yelena and Dmitry were arrested and imprisoned, leaving the adherents vulnerable to attacks from the authorities. In 1504, diak (secretary) Ivan-Volk Kuritsyn, Dmitry Konoplev and Ivan Maksimov were burnt at the stake.[7] Other adherents were banished, imprisoned, or excommunicated. Feodor Kuritsyn's adherents' club ceased to exist.
 
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So, going from Wiki the PoD required is Ivan III having only daughters with his Byzantine wife. This butterflies Ivan the Terrible among other things, though.
 
Syncretic Russian Judeo-Christianity? Wow, this sounds epic.
According to most accounts though, the Belief of Skhariya renounced the Holy Trinity and the divine status of Jesus, monasticism, ecclesiastic hierarchy, ceremonies, and immortality of soul. Some adherents even professed iconoclasm. The adherents also promoted the idea of "self-authority", or the self-determination of each individual in matters of faith and salvation.
I figured out the description of the heresy fits your PoD best and unlike other weird sects this one got a powerful backer in heir presumptive to the Russian throne.
 
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