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	The Chaldean Church - Christians in Iraq
		The Church of the East eventually succumbed to this heresy in large part due to its aversion to the influence of the Church of Constantinople.
		In rejecting the orthodox resolutions of the Council of Ephesus in 431, the Church of the East separated itself from the Universal Church and was thereafter known as the Nestorian Church.
		In the 16th century portions of the Church of the East sought relief by establishing relations with the Church of Rome.
	www.byzantines.net /epiphany/chaldean.htm (1969 words)

	The SYRIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH OF ANTIOCH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Syrians are the Arameans themselves, the inhabitants of the Fertile Crescent region (Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Iraq, and Southeastern Turkey).
		The church of Antioch, therefore, is proud that her Liturgy is in Syriac, the language made holy by the Lord's divine tongue, and honored by the tongue of His mother Mary and his Apostles.
		They split from the Syrian church of Antioch and established themselves a center of leadership in Madaen, Iraq, and then moved it, later on, to Baghdad in 762 A.D. Until recently, their church was known by the name "the Syrian church of the East", or the "Syrian Nestorian Church".
	catholicose.org /PauloseII/Church_History_Universal.htm (4938 words)

	History of the Chaldean church
		Chaldean Church rejection of its Assyrian heritage and its leaders' insistence that they are ethnically Chaldeans is contrary to all historical facts, reason and logic.
		By all accounts the Chaldean church came into existence in 1551 because of a dispute in the Assyrian "Church of the East", the dissidents formed a separate church under the leadership of Yohanna (John) Sulaga, a monk of Rabban Hormizd located 30 miles north of Nineveh.
		Chaldean church must be the only religious denomination which requires its members to abdicate their ancestry after they joined it.
	www.nineveh.com /chalchurch.htm (681 words)

	Chaldean Catholic Church
		The head of the church is based in Baghdad, Iraq, and his title is Katholicos Patriarch.
		The Syrian members are led by the Diocese of Aleppo.
		The Chaldeans still embrace their East Syrian liturgy of Addai and Mari, performing it in Syriac (a language close to Aramaic, the language of Jesus).
	lexicorient.com /e.o/chaldean.htm (303 words)

	Heritage
		The history of this ancient Church during 4th to 15th centuries reveals the fact that it was in friendly relations with the Church in Persia.
		The throne used for this consecration in 1655 is still in the possession of the Mar Thoma Church and kept in the Poolatheen, the residence of the Malankara Metropolitan at Tiruvalla.
		He later on removed from the church the wooden image of a saint reputed to have miraculous powers, and in whose honor an annual festival was held that brought in huge income to the Parish.
	www.marthomasyrianchurch.org /heritage.htm (3400 words)

	Catholicate of the East
		The Church in Persia was known in different names: Persian Church, Babylonian Church, East Syrian Church, Church of East, Chaldean Church etc. Though the jurisdiction of the Seleucian Catholicate was initially within the Persian Empire only, it later extended to few other regions outside the empire in Asia in the further East, through missionary activities.
		Syrian Orthodox (Jacobite) Church of Antioch and all the East
		Present headquarters of this ancient Maphrianate/Catholicate of the Syrian Orthodox Church is at Puthencuriz, Cochin, with Catholicose Aboon Mor Baselios Thomas I as the Chief of the Church in India.
	catholicose.org /PauloseII/Catholicate.htm (3327 words)

	Mart Mariyam Big Church
		The Chaldean Syrians of Trichur prefer to use the title Mother of Christ, while the Catholics and the Orthodox insist on the expression Mother of God.
		The Chaldean Syrians of Trichur claim their origin not to 1814 A.D. when the Big Church was constructed, but to 52 A.D. to the Mission of St. Thomas.
		Like the other Syrian Christian denominations of Kerala, the Chaldean Syrians of Trichur claim to be the faithful descendants of the first century converts of St. Thomas.
	www.churchoftheeastindia.org /mmbcdoc.htm (929 words)

	World Recognition
		The Syro-Malabar Church was known as the Church of the St.Thomas Christians until the 18th century because it was founded by St Thomas, one of the apostles of Jesus Christ.
		One of the objectives of the Regional Christian Councils was the strengthening of the evangelistic outreach as a joint or cooperative activity of all the churches.
		The ordained ministry of the church conforms to the traditional pattern of the threefold ministry of bishops, presbyters and deacons.
	www.indianchristianity.com /html/Churches.htm (10693 words)

	The Early Christians of India
		Among these Churches the Church of Seleucia-Ctesiphon emerged as the organizational centre, mainly owing to the political importance of this place as the capital of the Persian Empire.
		A connection to the East Syrian Church (Chaldean) was established after the arrival of another Thomas (Knai Thomman) and several families from Cana in the year 345 A.D. This infused new blood to the sagging old church established by St. Thomas.
		The administration of the Church was carried on by the assembly of the Thomas Christians called yogam (a sort of blend between a synod and a pastoral council, and also a significant expression of ecclesial communion and co-responsibility.) of which there were 3 kinds: the parish assembly, regional assembly and general assembly.
	members.tripod.com /~Berchmans/early.html (1287 words)

	The Development of the Canon of the New Testament - Peshitta
		For the New Testament it represented an accommodation of the Syrian canon with that of the Greeks.
		For the eastern part of the Syrian Church this constituted the closing of the canon, for after the Council of Ephesus (431 CE) the East Syrians separated themselves as the Nestorians.
		Among the Western Syrians, however, there were closer ties with their neighboring Churches, and a further accommodation with the Roman church took place in the 6th-7th centuries when the Philoxenian and Harclean versions of the Peshitta were issued containing all 27 New Testament books.
	www.ntcanon.org /Peshitta.shtml (753 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: East Syrian Rite
		After the Council of Ephesus (431), the Church of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, which had hitherto been governed by a catholicos under Antioch, refused to accept the condemnation of Nestorius, cut itself and the Church to the East of it off from the Catholic Church.
		The second is used by the Chaldeans and Nestorians on the Epiphany and the feasts of St.
		Assemani's arguments (ibid., cclxxxvi-viii) for a belief in Penance as a Sacrament among the ancient Nestorians or for the practice of auricular confession among the Malabar Nestorians are not conclusive.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14413a.htm (4132 words)

	Assyrian Church of the East - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Assyrian Church of the East is known by historians and scholars and also proclaimed by the Pope John Paul II as “The martyrs’ church”, because no church has suffered as much martyrdom for Christianity as the Assyrian Church of the East has.
		The Assyrian Church was split from the Catholic/Orthodox Church (the undivided Church of the East and West prior to the Great Schism of 1054) as a result of the Nestorian schism in 431, but the theology of the Assyrian church cannot be defined as Nestorianism.
		Bishops from the Church of the East were sent from Mesopotamia to India until the Sixteenth Century, but ecclesio-political considerations related to Portuguese missions meant that for the next few centuries bishops for India were ordained only with authorization from Rome, or from the Chaldean Catholic Church (a particular church in communion with Rome).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Assyrian_Church_of_the_East (2622 words)

	Diocese of St. Thomas, Las Vegas NV
		According to the tradition of the Church of the East, he brought leaven from the bread of the Last Supper (actually served and eaten prior to Passover as in the Gospel of John).
		The major liturgy of the Church of the East is attributed to Addai and Mari.
		Peace was brought to the Church through the diplomatic support of Mar Maruta, sent by the Emperor of Rome to Yezdegard I, Shah of Iran from 399 to 410.
	www.dioceseofstthomas.org /succession.html (7574 words)

	history
		The Chaldean Catholic Church was affiliated to the Roman Catholic Church through the Eastern Rite.
		The language of the Chaldean people is Aramaic, the same language spoken by Jesus Christ, but with a different dialect.
		The greatest concentration is in Mesopotamia – Iraq (650000), U.S.A. The head of the church is based in Baghdad, Iraq, and his title is Catholics Patriarch (Mar Emmanuel III Delli).
	www.chaldean.org.uk /history.htm (521 words)

	Chaldean Church
		This East Syrian Church and its liturgy developed from Palestinian Christianity through Antioch and Edessa with minimal Greek influence.
		The Chaldean/Assyrian Church adopted Nestorianism in 486 soon after the Council of Ephesus in 431.
		The Chaldean/Assyrian Church continued its missionary activity in Persia, India and China, particularly from the 8th to eh 13th century, but began to decline in the 14th century following the conversion of the Mongolian invaders to Islam.
	www.faswebdesign.com /ECPA/Syria/Chaldean.html (191 words)

	Part 5: The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple
		The Syrian refugees were led by a semi-legendary figure who is known to history variously as Thomas of Cana, Thomas the Merchant, Thomas the Canaanite, Thomas of Jerusalem, Knaye Thoma, Thomas Cananeus, or Thomas Cannaneo.
		C.B. Firth continues, "The second migration [of Syrian Christians] is dated in the year 823, when a number of Christians from Persia, including two bishops, came to Quilon in Travancore and settled there, having obtained from the local ruler grants of land and various other privileges...
		[17] The correct name of this church is Church of the East (because it was geographically in the Persian Empire, east of Jerusalem and Rome), but it is known by a variety of names, some of which are Church of Persia, Assyria, Mesopotamia, Tigris, Babylon and Seleucia (see note 14).
	hamsa.org /05.htm (1441 words)

	Mar Eshai Shimun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The official name of the Church of the East is the Holy Apostolic and Catholic Church of the East.
		The affairs of the Assyrian people and their mother Church were managed by Mar Yosip Khnanishoo, as metropolitan of Rustaqa, consecrator of the Patriarch, according to the Canon Law, and for a period, assisted by the late Mar Timotheos, metropolitan of India.
		The Church and State Conference held in Oxford and the Faith and Order Conference held in Edinburgh were both attended by His Holiness in 1937.
	www.peshitta.org /initial/mareshai.html (1883 words)

	Mar Aprem
		Dr.Mar Aprem Metropolitan of the Chaldean Syrian Church of The East in India with headquarters in Thrissur was awarded the “MEN OF ACHIEVEMENT”, Award of the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England.
		Since 1968 he is the head of the Church of the East in India with his headquarters in Thrissur.
		He is a member of the National Board of CASA (Church’s Auxiliary for Social Action) since its founding in 1976 in New Delhi.
	www.churchoftheeastindia.org /marapremdoc.htm (1274 words)

	The Unofficial Website of The Nestorian Church
		“Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East”,
		The Theology of the Church of the East has been stated briefly and clearly in the following “Hymn of Praise (TESHBOKHTA)” Composed by Mar Babai the Great in the sixth century A.D.,
		In the fullness of time, in a body united;
	www.nestorian.org (120 words)

	Heritage at Youth Fellowship - Mar Thoma Church, Dubai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The writer apparently thought people could learn a lesson from the bear, for these creatures seem to be quite happy as long as they have enough food to eat and a few of their own kind around them.This is not true of humans, however.
		Thomas, the Apostle of Jesus Christ is believed to have landed in AD 52 in Cranganore near Cochin, which was at that time an important seaport on the Malabar Coast, having trade connections with the Middle East in those days.
		Youth Fellowship - Mar Thoma Church, Dubai is powered by WordPress 2.0.4 and 3K2 Beta 1.01 theme
	marthoma.ws /blog/index.php/heritage (3591 words)

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