As " abominations " he listed Saracens, Greeks, Syrians, Jacobites, Abyssinians, Nestorians, Armenians, Gregorians, Maronites, Turcomans, Bedouins, Assassins, a possible Druze sect and Mamluks.

Before the 1553 consecration of Shimun VIII Yohannan Sulaqa, the term Chaldeans had only been officially used previously by the Council of Florence in 1445 as a new name for a group of Greek Nestorians of Cyprus who entered in Full Communion with the Catholic Church.

Though he did not attend personally, he sent delegates to the First Council of Ephesus of 431, in which the Nestorians were condemned.

Particularly inspiring were the Nestorians ' missionary successes among the Mongol and Turks of Central Asia ; the French historian René Grousset suggests that one of the seeds of the story may have come from the Kerait clan, which had hundreds of thousands of its members converted to Nestorian Christianity shortly after the year 1000.

He probably, however, thought that the differences between Catholics, Nestorians, and the rest were of a theological, but not of a dogmatical nature, and that they did not affect the common faith ; hence, he did not consider others as heretics, and was not himself considered as such, at least by the Nestorians and the Armenians.

Among the Nestorians of Persia the writings of Theodore were regarded as the standard both of doctrine and of interpretation, and the Persian church returned the censures of the orthodox by pronouncing an anathema on all who opposed or rejected them ( cf.

The Nestorians, who were persecuted in the Byzantine Empire, sought refuge in Mesopotamia, then part of the Sassanid Empire, From there they spread Christianity to Persia, India, China, and Mongolia.

As a sect, the Nestorians were often persecuted as heretics by the Byzantine Empire, but Bahrain was outside the Empire's control offering safety.

Others have written that the first metropolitans were created in China at the time of Sliba-zkha, the Nestorians ' patriarch from 714 to 728.

In fact one of the most serious objections raised by the Nestorians against the Miaphysites was that the latter obeyed a spiritual head residing in Byzantine territory and that they were therefore inclined to become the subjects of the Emperor of Constantinople.

Following the Nestorian Schism, the Persian Church increasingly aligned itself with the Nestorians, a measure encouraged by the Zoroastrian ruling class.

Following the Nestorian Schism, the Persian Church increasingly aligned itself with the Nestorians, a measure encouraged by the Zoroastrian ruling class.

* Nineveh and Its Remains: A Narrative of an Expedition to Assyria 1867, Massacre of Nestorians by Bedr Khan Beg, Pages 129 – 174.

The conflict between the two bishops is described by historian Averil Cameron, " The issue was whether, and, if so, how, Christ had two natures ; the Monophysites held that he had only a divine nature, while Nestorius, and ' Nestorians ' after him, emphasized the human " Nestorius was an advocate of diminishing the influence of the Mother of God, or Theotokos, from the Church.

From the start, the council was heavily influenced by Cyril and Pulcheria and the council often went in their favor, " The council was weighted heavily in favor of the Cyrillians, since they had ' planted ' uncouth Alexandrians to heckle the Nestorians.

Both on account of his virtues and of his science, Bar Hebræus was respected by all, and his death was mourned not only by men of his own faith, but also by the Nestorians and the Armenians.

In 485 Barsauma's political enemies consecrated the moderate churchman Acacius patriarch, in the hope that he would prevent the takeover of the Church of the East by the Nestorians, but Acacius, despite frequent quarrels with Barsauma, was unable to prevent the victory of the powerful Nestorian faction.

The Nestorians use three verses of psalms each followed by three Alleluias ( this group is called Zumara ) after the Epistle.

William of Rubruck, who encountered many Nestorians during his stay at Mongke Khan's court and at Karakorum in 1254-1255, notes that the so-called " Nestorianism " in Mongolia was tainted by shamanism and Manicheism and very confused in terms of liturgy.

At that time, Tripoli had a heterogeneous population including Western Europeans, Greeks, Armenians, Maronites, Nestorians, Jews, and Muslims.

This proved to be a catalyst for the schism that exists today between Chaldean Catholics and Assyrian " Nestorians ".

" The Roman Catholics also considered the Nestorians as heretical

" The Roman Catholics also considered the Nestorians as heretical

This includes Anglicans, Protestants, Catholics, Armenian Orthodox, Assyrian / Chaldean, smaller numbers of Nestorians and more recent Evangelical sects.

Eugene IV signed an agreement with the Armenians on 22 November 1439, and with a part of the Jacobites in 1443, and in 1445 he received the Nestorians and the Maronites.

The local Nestorians collected their remains and buried them ; Giordano, on his return, took them to Sopara and buried them there.

Assemani, Renaudot, Badger ( Nestorians and their Rituals ), also Denzinger, have the fullest information on this point.

It was the Nestorians, another heretical force of the opposite persuasion, who helped to popularize images of Christ on the cross.

The Persian Church became increasingly Nestorian in doctrine over the next decades, furthering the divide between Chalcedonian Christianity and the Nestorians.

For these reasons critics came to refer to the Nestorians who had disavowed clerical celibacy as the Persian Church.

Early Christian presence in the Malay archipelago may be traced to Nestorians from as early as the 7th century and to Persian and Nestorian traders in Malacca prior to the Portuguese conquest in 1511.

* adherents of the East Syrian Rite, always called Assyrians but in the past sometimes erroneously called Nestorians

If Christ is in full humanity and in full divinity, then He is separate in two persons as the Nestorians teach.

The Nestorians fleeing religious persecution seek his protection.

This led many members of the two churches to condemn each other: the Chalcedonians ' condemning the Non-Chalcedonians as Eutychian Monophysites, and the Non-Chalcedonians ' condemning the Chalcedonians as Nestorians.

Those present at the Council also rejected the Christological views of the Nestorians, Eutychians, and the monophysites.

The different width of the lines ( thickest for " Protestantism " and thinnest for " Oriental Orthodox " and " Nestorians ") is without objective significance.

Their ancient oracle traditions, handed down for centuries, contained some startling echoes of the Old Testament that some scholars conjecture a linkage with Jewish communities ( or possibly even Nestorians ), before their migrations from western China into Burma perhaps as early as the 12th century.

To be popular in the newly gained provinces, King Chosroes II did not want to favor the Nestorians any more.

** adherents of the Syriac Catholic Church, also called West Syrians or Syriacs

Armenoid was also identified as the dominant type of the indigenous Semitic groups of Syria and Mesopotamia: the ancient Amorites, the modern Assyrians, Syriacs, and Chaldeans, the religious minorities of Lebanon and Syria, and the Lebanese and Syrians of mountainous regions were all identified as being of the Armenoid type.