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Oriental Orthodoxy
Miaphysite churches; the non-Chalcedonian communion
451 CE – present · Abrahamic · Living · Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Armenia, Syria, India
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
- 451 CE Council of Chalcedon. Egypt, Syria and Armenia reject its formula; the first permanent division of the Christian church.
- c.480–600 CE Jacob Baradaeus reorganises the Syrian church, which becomes the Syriac Orthodox Church.
- 301 CE Armenia adopts Christianity as its state religion — traditionally the first nation on earth to do so.
- c.330 CE Frumentius converts the Axumite king Ezana; Ethiopia becomes Christian.
- 639–642 CE Arab conquest of Egypt. The Copts, long persecuted by Byzantium for their theology, initially fare no worse and in some accounts better.
- 1915–1923 CE The Armenian genocide. Approximately 1.5 million killed; the Ottoman Armenian church is effectively destroyed.
- 1959 CE The Ethiopian church becomes fully autocephalous, ending 1,600 years under the Coptic patriarch.
- 1971–1990 CE Agreed christological statements with Eastern Orthodox, Catholic and Anglican churches largely resolve the ancient dispute.
- 2011–present Sustained attacks on Copts in Egypt; the 2015 murder of 21 Coptic workers in Libya.
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