Alopen
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Alopen is the first recorded Christian missionary to have reached China, during the Tang dynasty. He was a missionary from the Church of the East, and probably a Syriac speaker from the Sasanian Empir
Detail of the Xi'an Stele artifact, mentioning Alopen
Rubbing of a Nestorian Cross at the Shih tzu ssu 1
Adam (monk)
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Adam, also known by his Chinese name Jingjing, was an 8th-century Syriac Christian monk and scholar in China. He composed the text on the Nestorian Stele, which described the history of the Church of
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…surprised to find that the "new" religion being preached by the missionaries, had actually been in existence in China more than 1,000 years earlier. Adam (monk) Early Christianity in China…
"Adam" in Syriac in the Xian Nestorian Stele, in Hebrew and in Written Hebrew (reads from right to left)