# Church of the East · The Canon · The Atlas · The Congregation of Tomorrow Source: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/atlas/library/canon/church-of-the-east/ · The Congregation of Tomorrow · the Atlas · language: en The same words a person sees on this page, nothing more and nothing hidden. Our own words are free to use under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), naming the Congregation of Tomorrow. Words of others keep their own terms. Every page of the site, listed: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/pages.json · the whole site in one file: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/llms-full.txt ← The Canon: all 125 The Canon · No. 042 Church of the East Nestorian Church; Assyrian Church of the East 431 CE – present · Abrahamic · Living · Iraq, Iran, India, historically to China and Mongolia IV. THE CLASSICAL & IMPERIAL WORLD — c.200 BCE – 500 CE ### How many ### Who began it ### What it is for ### What it worships ### What it holds ### What it does ### After death ### Its texts ### Its branches ### Of note ### Its timeline - 431 CE Council of Ephesus condemns Nestorius; the Persian church, already administratively separate, declines to accept it. - 410, 424 CE Synods of Seleucia-Ctesiphon establish independence from the western churches. - 635 CE Alopen reaches Chang'an, the Tang capital, and is received by Emperor Taizong. Christianity is preached in China for the first time. - 781 CE The Xi'an Stele is erected, recording 150 years of the Luminous Religion in China in Chinese and Syriac. Rediscovered in 1625, it is one of the most remarkable documents in Christian history. - c.780–823 CE Under Patriarch Timothy I the church stretches from Egypt to China and has more territory than any other Christian body on earth. - 845 CE Tang persecution ends the Chinese mission. - c.1200–1300 CE Substantial Mongol adherence; several Mongol royal women are members. Rabban Bar Sauma travels from Beijing to Rome and Paris as a Mongol envoy in 1287. - 1368 CE Ming dynasty; the Central Asian church collapses under Timur's campaigns. - 1552 CE Schism; one line unites with Rome as the Chaldean Catholic Church. - 1915–1918 CE The Sayfo, the Assyrian genocide, alongside the Armenian genocide. Perhaps 250,000 killed. - 1933 CE Simele massacre in Iraq. - 2014–2017 CE ISIS drives the remaining community from the Nineveh plains; ancient churches and manuscripts destroyed. ### Sources Not yet checked against named sources. This entry is the house's reading; until it is checked, treat each claim as unverified. Correct it, with a source. The Atlas The Door