Assyrian Church of the East
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The Assyrian Church of the East, sometimes called the Church of the East and officially known as the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, is an East Syriac Christian church that follow
The Patriarchal See of the Assyrian Church of the East in Kurdistan Region, Iraq
A 6th-century Assyrian church, St. John the Arab, in the Assyrian village of Geramon
Mar Toma church near Urmia, Iran
Mar Elias (Eliya), the Nestorian bishop of the Urmia Plain village of Geogtapa, c. 1831. The image comes from A Residence of Eight Years in Persia Among the Nestorians, with Notes of the Mohammedans by Justin Perkins (Andover, 1843).
Ancient Church of the East
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The Ancient Church of the East is an East Syriac Christian denomination based in Baghdad and is composed largely of ethnic Assyrians. It separated from the Assyrian Church of the East in 1964 to estab
Assyrian Church of the East
…led to another schism. In 1968, traditionalists within the church elected Thoma Darmo as a rival patriarch to Shimun XXI Eshai, forming the independent Ancient Church of the East, based in Baghdad, Iraq. In 1972, Shimun decided to step down as patriarch, and the following year he got married, in contravention to longstanding…
Cathedral of the Virgin Mary Baghdad, Iraq
Christ Pantocrator mosaic from Hagia Sophia 2240 x 3109 pixels 2.5 MB