Karp

Karp was a fourteenth-century deacon in Pskov whom the chronicles name as the founder of the Strigolniki sect. He rejected the church hierarchy, monasticism and the fees charged for the sacraments, and taught that laymen might preach and perform the rites.

His following first grew in Pskov and then spread to Novgorod. The chronicles record that in 1375 or 1376 the Novgorodians drowned Karp, the deacon Nikita and a third follower in the Volkhov River.