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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
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Xi'an Stele
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The Xi'an Stele or the Jingjiao Stele, traditionally translated as the "Nestorian Stele," is a Tang Chinese stele erected in 781 that documents 150 years of early Christianity in China. It is a limest
Alopen
…missionary from the Church of the East, and probably a Syriac speaker from the Sasanian Empire or from Byzantine Syria. He is known exclusively from the Xi'an Stele, which describes his arrival in the Tang capital of Chang'an in 635 and his acceptance by Emperor Taizong of Tang. His is the earliest known name that…
The stele entitled 大秦景教流行中國碑 was erected in China in 781.
Michał Boym, Flora Sinensis, 1656
Athanasius Kircher, China Monumentis, 1667