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Indonesia also has the second-largest Christian population in the Muslim world, after Nigeria, followed by Egypt. Indonesia's 29.4 million Christians constituted 10.47% of the country's population in 2023, with 7.41% Protestant (20.8 million) and 3.06% Catholic (8.6 million). Some provinces in Indonesia are majority Christian.
The bishop Sliba-zkha of Tirhan, who flourished during the reign of the patriarch Yaʿqob II (753–73), secured permission from the Jacobite authorities for the construction of a Nestorian church in Tagrit, in return for the restoration to the Jacobites of a church in Nisibis that had earlier been confiscated by the Nestorians.
The Church of the East (Classical Syriac: ܥܕܬܐ ܕܡܕܢܚܐ ʿĒḏtā d-Maḏenḥā) or the East Syriac Church, [13] also called the Church of Seleucia-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 Nicene ...
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.
Shahlufa and Ahadabui, two late-3rd-century bishops of Erbil who had played a notable part in the affairs of the church of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, were 'converted' retrospectively into early patriarchs. Ahadabui was said to have governed the church of Seleucia-Ctesiphon from 204 to 220, and Shahlufa from 220 to 224.
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 ...
In the Church of the East, pejoratively but incorrectly also known as the Nestorian Church by its detractors, opposition to religious images eventually became the norm due to the rise of Islam in the region, where it forbade any type of depictions of Saints and biblical prophets. As such, the Church was forced to get rid of their icons. [52]
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