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A 12th-century Christian Egyptian record of churches suggests that either an Oriental Orthodox or Nestorian church was established in Barus, on the west coast of North Sumatra, a trading post known to have been frequented by Indian traders, and therefore linked to the Indian Saint Thomas Christians. [22]
The Nestorian Church of Persia, Church of the East (Classical Syriac: ܥܕܬܐ ܕܡܕܢܚܐ ʿĒḏtā d-Maḏenḥā) or the East Syriac Church, [13] also called the Church of Ctesiphon, [14] the Persian Church, the Assyrian Church, the Babylonian Church [12] [15] [16] or the Nestorian Church, [note 2] is one of three major branches of Eastern ...
Nestorian priests in a procession on Palm Sunday, in a seventh- or eighth-century wall painting from a Nestorian church in Qocho, China. Nestorianism was condemned as heresy at the Council of Ephesus (431). The Armenian Church rejected the Council of Chalcedon (451) because they believed Chalcedonian Definition was too similar to Nestorianism.
Today, Christianity is the predominant faith in six Asian countries, the Philippines, East Timor, Cyprus, Russia, Armenia and Georgia. In both conservative (the UAE) and moderately liberal (Malaysia and Indonesia) Muslim states, [citation needed] Christians continue to enjoy freedom of worship, despite limits on their ability to spread their faith.
Another Portuguese-language church, the Portuguese Buitenkerk, was built outside the city walls in 1695, now Gereja Sion, the oldest surviving church building in Indonesia. On 18 May 1696, a former VOC officer Cornelis Chastelein bought the land with an area of 12.44 km2, 6.2% the area of today's Depok.
Though Nestorius had been condemned by the Imperial church, there was a faction loyal to him and his teachings. Following the Nestorian schism, many Nestorian Christians were forced to relocate to the communities in Persia, and the church was misnamed the "Nestorian Church" by its opponents. Nestorius is however not a major figure in this church.
The church originally belonged to the Church of the East (Nestorian Church), a branch of Eastern Christianity in West Asia. The majority of its adherents today are ethnic Assyrians. [relevant?] It was discovered in 1986 by picnickers, [8] and excavated in 1987. As of 2009 the site was fenced, and tourists and archaeologists were not permitted ...
The Nestorian schism (a.d. 431–544) was a split between the Christian churches of Sassanid Persia, which affiliated with Nestorius, and those that later became the Catholic and Orthodox churches. The schism rose out of a Christological dispute, notably involving Cyril ( Patriarch of Alexandria ) and Nestorius ( Patriarch of Constantinople ).