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Dioceses of the Syriac Orthodox Church — Deir Zaʿfaran, the saffron monastery , seat of the Syrian Orthodox patriarchs after the First World War In the period of its greatest expansion, in the tenth century, the Syrian Orthodox Church had around 20 metropolitan dioceses and a little… … Wikipedia
Dioceses of the Church of the East to 1318 — Syrian, Armenian and Latin bishops debate Christian doctrine in the Crusader city of Acre, late 13th century At the height of its power, in the 10th century AD, the dioceses of the Church of the East numbered well over a hundred and stretched… … Wikipedia
Nisibis (East Syrian Ecclesiastical Province) — The ruins of the East Syrian church of Mar Yaʿqob in Nisibis The Nisibis region was a metropolitan province of the Church of the East between the fifth and seventeenth centuries. The province of Nisibis (Syriac: Nisibin, ܢܨܝܒܝܢ, often abb … Wikipedia
Kirkuk (Chaldean Archdiocese) — The Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Kirkuk is an archeparchy of the Chaldean Catholic Church in communion with the Pope in Rome. The archdeparchy was created in the early years of the nineteenth century. Its present ordinary, Archbishop Louis… … Wikipedia
Dioceses of the Church of the East, 1318–1552 — The Dioceses of the Church of the East, 1318–1552 were far fewer in number than during the period of the Church s greatest expansion in the tenth century. Between 1318 and 1552, the geographical horizons of the Church of the East, which had once… … Wikipedia
Maishan (East Syrian Ecclesiastical Province) — The region of Maishan (Syriac: ܡܝܫܢ) in southern Iraq was a metropolitan province of the Church of the East between the fifth and thirteenth centuries. The metropolitans of Maishan sat at Prath d Maishan (Syriac: ܦܪܬ ܕܡܝܫܢ), and for most of its… … Wikipedia
Timothy I (Nestorian Patriarch) — For the Eastern Orthodox patriarch who died in 523, see Patriarch Timothy I of Constantinople. Timothy I, patriarch of the Church of the East from 780 to 823, is widely considered to be one of the most impressive patriarchs in the long history of … Wikipedia
Church of the East — For other uses, see Church of the East (disambiguation). Nestorian Church redirects here. For other uses, see Nestorian (disambiguation). Nestorian priests in a procession on Palm Sunday, in a 7th or 8th century wall painting from a Nestorian… … Wikipedia
Dioceses of the Syrian Catholic Church — The Syrian Catholic Church, established in the second half of the 17th century as a Catholic offshoot of the Syrian Orthodox Church, had around a dozen dioceses in the eastern provinces of the Ottoman empire in the 18th and 19th centuries. Three… … Wikipedia
Mardin (Chaldean Diocese) — Mardin was a diocese of the Chaldean Church from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. The diocese lapsed in 1941.[1] Contents 1 Background 2 The Chaldean bishops of Mardin 3 Population … Wikipedia
