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The Church of the East (Classical Syriac: ܥܕܬܐ ܕܡܕܢܚܐ, romanized: ʿĒḏtā d-Maḏenḥā) or the East Syriac Church, also called the Church of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, the Persian Church, the Assyrian Church, the Babylonian Church or the Nestorian Church, is one of three major branches of Nicene Eastern Christianity that ...
The Church of the East is the sect of Christianity which developed in Syria and Persia. At its height, dioceses of the Church of the East stretched from Mesopotamia to China and from India to Arabia. However, today, the Assyrian Church of the East, the largest descendant of the Church of the East, has only 323,300 members.
- Andrew Platt
The historical distinctiveness of the Assyrian Church of the East resulted from the series of complex processes and events that occurred within the Church of the East during the transitional period that started in the middle of the 16th century, and lasted until the beginning of the 19th century.
According to its tradition, the Church of the East was established by Thomas the Apostle in the first century. Its liturgical rite is the East Syrian rite that employs the Divine Liturgy of Saints Addai and Mari.
THE CHURCH OF THE EAST The Church of the East is currently the only complete history in English of the East Syriac Church. It covers the periods of the Sas-sanians, Arabs, Mongols, Ottomans, and the twentieth century, with information about the Syriac, Iranian, and Chinese documentation of this unique and almost forgotten part of Christendom.
5 de abr. de 2024 · Nestorianism. Christian sect. Also known as: Ancient Church of the East, Assyrian Church, Church of the East, Persian Church. Written and fact-checked by. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Assyrian Church of the East. Members. 70,000 in 1968; [1] approx. 75 000, of which 45 000 in Iraq and 20 000 in India (1999) [2] The Ancient Church of the East is an Eastern Christian denomination. It branched from the Assyrian Church of the East in 1964, under the leadership of Mar Toma Darmo (d. 1969).
