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2 unusual facts about Church of the East


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But Mongol power was already waning, as the Empire dissolved into civil war, and it reached a turning point in 1295, when Ghazan, the Mongol ruler of the Ilkhanate, made a formal conversion to Islam when he took the throne.

The Nestorian Stele, set up on 7 January 781 at the then-capital of Chang'an, attributes the introduction of Christianity to a mission under a Persian cleric named Alopen in 635, in the reign of Tang Taizong during the Tang Dynasty.


Syriac Christianity

The Eastern Rite tradition was historically associated with the Church of the East, and is currently employed by the Middle Eastern churches that descend from it, the Assyrian Church of the East, Ancient Church of the East, and the Chaldean Catholic Church, (the members of these churches are commonly Eastern Aramaic speaking ethnic Assyrians) as well as by the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church of India.


see also

Assyrian Apostolic Church

Assyrian Church of the East, sometimes called Nestorian Church, although the latter term more commonly refers to the Church of the East

Council of Seleucia-Ctesiphon

It marked a major milestone in the history of the Church of the East and of Christianity in Asia in general.

Denha

Denha I, Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1265 to 1281

Denha II, Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1336/7 to 1381/2

ShemĘżon XIII Dinkha Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East from 1681 to c.1700

Jesus Sutras

Christoph Baumer, The Church of the East, an Illustrated History of Assyrian Christianity (London: I. B. Tauris, 2006).

Meelis Zaia

Bishop Meelis Zaia was awarded an Order of Australia (AM) medal on 26 January 2007 in the Australia Day Honours List by the Queen of Australia, Elizabeth II, for his community service through the Assyrian Church of the East and for his pioneering work in the field of education and the establishment of educational facilities.

Syriac Christianity

The Ancient Church of the East, split from the Assyrian Church of the East in the 1960s

Yahballaha

Yahballaha II, Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1190 to 1222

Yahballaha I, Patriarch of the Church of the East from 415 to 420

Yahballaha III, Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1281 to 1317