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The OrientalOrthodoxchurches are therefore often called Monophysite churches, although they reject this label, which is associated with Eutychian Monophysitism, preferring the term "non-Chalcedonian" or "Miaphysite" churches.
OrientalOrthodoxChurches reject the Monophysite teachings of Eutyches and the Dyophysite teachings of Nestorius.
The Assyrian Church of the East is sometimes, although incorrectly, considered an OrientalOrthodoxChurch.
The OrientalOrthodoxchurches rejected the dogmatic definitions of the Council of Chalcedon.
The separation resulted in part from the OrientalOrthodoxchurches' refusal to accept the Christological dogmas promulgated by the Council of Chalcedon, which held that Jesus Christ has two natures — one divine and one human, although these were inseparable and only act as one hypostasis.
The Assyrian Church of the East (Nestorian Church) is sometimes considered an OrientalOrthodoxChurch, although it is not in communion with OrientalOrthodoxchurches and they have a Nestorian or Nestorian-like Christology that differs from the declaration of the Council of Chalcedon in an opposite way from the Monophysites.