Assyrian Church of the East

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The Church of the East refused the anathemas of Ephesus and venerates Nestorius among its Greek teachers; it did not choose and never accepted the Nestorian label its rivals attached to it. He was not its founder.

The Persian church was chartered under its own catholicos at Seleucia-Ctesiphon in 410 and took a theology distinct from Constantinople.

One of the three targeted Christian traditions (Assyrian Church of the East, Syriac Orthodox, Chaldean Catholic); the atlas records the Assyrian Church of the East here as the community whose name the genocide itself carries. This is an Associated With edge to a targeted tradition, not a perpetrator-tradition edge; the perpetrator was the Ottoman state.

The Assyrian Church of the East does not accept Ephesus's condemnation of Nestorius and continues to honor him.

Traditional apostolic founding attribution, one of three named apostles the church traces its origin to.

Traditional apostolic founding attribution, one of three named apostles the church traces its origin to.

Held as a distinct order, under a catholicos patriarch, in a hierarchy that survived without an empire behind it.

The office of catholicos developed in the Church of the East precisely because the church lay outside the Roman frontier and needed a head who was not answerable to a see inside it.

The head of the Church of the East holds the office as catholicos patriarch.

Held as the second order, with a married priesthood.

The second and last of the ecumenical councils the Church of the East numbers, so its conciliar inheritance closes fifty years before Chalcedon.

The Church of the East receives Nicaea, and the two Greek councils of the fourth century are the only ecumenical councils it numbers.

The Church of the East is governed by its own catholicos-patriarch and has stood outside Roman jurisdiction since the fifth century.

The Assyrian Church of the East recognises no papal jurisdiction over its own patriarchate and does not receive the definition.

The Church of the East refuses the council that deposed Nestorius, and honours Nestorius, Theodore of Mopsuestia and Diodore of Tarsus as authoritative teachers. This refusal, not Chalcedon, is where its separation begins.

The council condemned Theodore of Mopsuestia by name, and Theodore is one of the three teachers the Church of the East holds to be authoritative, so its refusal is direct and not a matter of numbering.

The Assyrian Church of the East sings the East Syriac recension, ordered through the Hudra, with its own melodies and mode assignments rather than the West Syriac Beth Gazo.

The Church of the East was not represented and does not number Chalcedon among its councils, yet its own Christology confesses two natures in Christ in terms a reader would recognise as close to the definition it never received.

The Church of the East never adopted the Chalcedonian or Cyrillian hypostatic union formula, holding instead its own two-qnome-one-parsopa Christology from the Antiochene tradition.

Baptism is followed by the signing with oil.

Kept on December 25 in the East Syriac calendar, opening the season of Subara, the Annunciation, which the Church of the East counts as the start of its liturgical year.

Confession is practised, and the East Syriac tradition developed its penitential discipline separately from both the Byzantine and the Latin.

The Church of the East's own Christology, two qnome united in one parsopa as fixed by Babai the Great around 600 CE, a formula the church itself never called Nestorian.

The East Syriac Rite is the liturgy of the Assyrian Church of the East.

The fasting calendar includes the Fast of the Ninevites, kept before the Great Fast and found in no Western church.

Infants are baptised.

Marriage is a mystery of the church, with the crowning and the blessing of the ring.

The daily office follows the East Syriac books, and Syriac is the liturgical language.

The Anaphora of Addai and Mari is used, and it is the oldest eucharistic prayer in continuous use anywhere in Christianity. It carries no institution narrative in its received form, which is a difference from every other historic rite and not an omission.

The Assyrian Church of the East retains Classical Syriac as its liturgical language.

The dyophysite christology of the Church of the East, which distinguishes the two natures more sharply than Chalcedon and declines the title Theotokos in the sense the council intended.

The Malabar community received its hierarchy, East Syriac liturgy and canon law from the Church of the East for more than a thousand years, a link the Portuguese severed at Diamper in 1599; the Chaldean Syrian Church of Thrissur remains within that communion today.