Word: nestorius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doubting Apostle, founded the Church of the East in the First Century. A great missionary church, it made millions of converts in distant India and China, then slowly dwindled. Its split with the Western Church came when it accepted the doctrine of the dual nature of Christ propounded by Nestorius, a Fifth-Century Patriarch of Constantinople. Pope Celestine I declared the doctrine heretical. Nestorius was deposed, but Nestorianism continued to flourish among the Assyrians. Aramaic, the language which Christ spoke, is still the liturgical language of the Assyrian Church...
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