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Categories: 1552 disestablishments in Asia, Ancient history of Iraq, Articles with short description, 7th century in Armenia, Medieval Iraq
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Nestorian Church  Church of the East  apostolic church of the East  Babylonian Church  Catholicate of the East
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A Christian Church in the Middle East that followed Nestorianism; there is still a small Nestorian Church in Iraq WordNet 3.0
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A Christian Church in the Middle East that followed Nestorianism; there is still a small Nestorian Church in Iraq WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
The Church of the East or the East Syriac Church, also called the Church of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, the Persian Church, the Assyrian Church, the Babylonian Church or the Nestorian Church, was an Eastern Christian church of the East Syriac Rite, based in Mesopotamia. Wikipedia
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 Wikidata
The church originally made up of the Christians of the Sasanid Empire, later known as the Nestorian church and characterised by its use of the East Syriac liturgical rite. Wiktionary