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 "church of the east "
1 The prosperity of the Church of the East culminated in the eleventh century.
2 By the Middle Ages the Church of the East had spread over the whole of Central Asia.
3 In all churches of the East , except the Armenian, the spoon is used in administering the sacrament.
4 It was an opportunity to become more familiar with the ethos of the churches of the east .
5 The Russian Church , like the other orthodox churches of the East , had an apostle for its founder.
1 Here their patriarch dwells who ruled over all the Nestorian church .
2 The Nestorian Church being thus crushed at home, its missions languished.
3 The ordination took place in one of the Nestorian churches .
4 The annual convention of helpers and representatives of the Nestorian churches occupied three days of October, 1867.
5 Olopen, and his successors in the Christian mission, whether Syrians or Persians by birth, certainly belonged to the Nestorian church .
6 Among the novelties to be recorded was the marriage of Mar Yohanan, in violation of the canons of the Nestorian Church .
7 There are twelve idol temples belonging to different nations, two Mahometan mosques, and one Nestorian church at the end of the town.
8 The time had now come, when it could be no longer safe for the reformed Nestorian churches to defer entering upon incipient foreign missions.
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