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Meanings of church of the east in English
Russian
церковь востока Portuguese
igreja nestoriana Catalan
església de pèrsia Spanish
iglesia del este 
An Eastern Christian Church that in 410 organised itself within the Sasanid Empire and in 424 declared its leader independent of other Christian leaders; from the Persian Empire it spread to other parts of Asia in late antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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Examples for "nestorian church"
Examples for "nestorian church"
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Here their patriarch dwells who ruled over all the Nestorian church.
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The Nestorian Church being thus crushed at home, its missions languished.
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The ordination took place in one of the Nestorian churches.
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The annual convention of helpers and representatives of the Nestorian churches occupied three days of October, 1867.
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Olopen, and his successors in the Christian mission, whether Syrians or Persians by birth, certainly belonged to the Nestorian church.
Usage of church of the east in English
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The prosperity of the Church of the East culminated in the eleventh century.
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By the Middle Ages the Church of the East had spread over the whole of Central Asia.
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In all churches of the East, except the Armenian, the spoon is used in administering the sacrament.
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It was an opportunity to become more familiar with the ethos of the churches of the east.
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The Russian Church , like the other orthodox churches of the East, had an apostle for its founder.
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As so often in the history of the Church of the East, the years of good fortune were comparatively brief.
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What all the churches of the East and West, what Romanist and Protestant believe in common, that I call Christianity.
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The Church of the East excommunicated thousands of those who crossed themselves with two fingers instead of using three fingers.
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Moreover, the Church of the East pushed forward its frontiers through Syrian merchants, who were renowned throughout Asia for their bargaining skills.
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It was decisively a Western creed: it {82} never came into the offices of the orthodox Church of the East.
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Their legacy also served to seal the rift between the Orthodox Church of the East and the Latin Church of the West.
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In the old churches of the East or on the Continent of Europe, how much of virtual idolatry is there even now?
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The Church of the East, as it was officially called, rejected the Third General Council, and was cut off from the Catholic Church.
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Their theology became tainted with further heresy in the sixth century, and they are still separate from the orthodox Church of the East.
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Like a growing youth, the Church in Western Canada needs more than ever, help and support from the Mother Church of the East.
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But the Crusades left a bitter legacy both in relations between the churches of the East and the West and between Islam and Christianity.
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