Church of the East related to those churches under the dominion of the first Patriarchate of Jerusalem which was first transferred from Jerusalem to Pella as following the 135CE Roman ban on Jews the city was given over to Antioch's jurisdiction. Following further anti-semetic laws designed to assimilate Jewish christians in 333CE, they fled from there to Kerala in 345CE. The charge of Nestorian heresey was drummed up against them when the Eastern churches refused (or failed) to join in the condemnation of Nestorius who always denied the charges against him. Their last remaining Jewish families which had not come under the dominion of the Assyrian Church of the east, were mostly assimilated by western Churches in 1649. The original rite is thought not to have been too different from the Chaldean Rite. The legend of Prestor John grew up around them.
The Assyrian Church of the East is a Christian denominational body that traces its origins to the See of Babylon, said to be founded by Saint Thomas the Apostle. ...
The Holy Apostolic and Catholic Assyrian Church of the East under His Holiness Mar Dinkha IV is a Christian church that traces its origins to the See of Babylon, said to be founded by Saint Thomas the Apostle.
The Assyrian Church of the East is known by historians and scholars and also proclaimed by the Pope John Paul II as “The martyrs’ church”, because no church has suffered as much martyrdom for Christianity as the Assyrian Church of the East has.
Bishops from the Church of the East were sent from Mesopotamia to India until the Sixteenth Century, but ecclesio-political considerations related to Portuguese missions meant that for the next few centuries bishops for India were ordained only with authorization from Rome, or from the Chaldean Catholic Church (a particular church in communion with Rome).
Church of the East and Abroad is a Christian denomination claiming its origin during the Second Temple era of Judaism.
It describes itself as a Nasrani Nestorian Orthodox Church, and claims a common history with the Assyrian Church of the East, which is denied by the latter.
It is said that in 2003 some 1000 Burmese Christians joined their church, and were granted the name Burmese Orthodox Church along the border of Myanmar extending from Laos to the Adaman Sea, in an area which they call The Kingdom of Nettara and which is located within Thailand's Burmese Refugee Camp Areas.
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