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The Assyrian Church of the East [a] (ACOE), sometimes called the Church of the East [5] [6] and officially known as the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, [5] [7] [b] is an Eastern Christian church that follows the traditional Christology and ecclesiology of the historical Church of the East. [9]
Emmanuel was born as Robert Shlimon in 1970 in Habbaniya, Iraq, to a devout Assyrian-Christian family belonging to the Ancient Church of the East.He grew up in Baghdad, but his family left Iraq in 1985 and settled in Sydney, Australia, where he attended Fairfield High School. [3]
The East Syriac Rite, or East Syrian Rite (also called the Edessan Rite, Assyrian Rite, Persian Rite, Chaldean Rite, Nestorian Rite, Babylonian Rite or Syro-Oriental Rite), is an Eastern Christian liturgical rite that employs the Divine Liturgy of Saints Addai and Mari and utilizes the East Syriac dialect as its liturgical language.
According to a 1950 CIA report on Iraq, Chaldean Catholic Assyrians numbered 98,000 and were the largest Christian minority. [5] In the late 2010s, it had a membership of 616,639, with a large population in diaspora and its home country of Iraq. [4] [6]
Genghis Khan was a shamanist, but his sons took Christian wives from the powerful Kerait clan, as did their sons in turn. During the rule of Genghis's grandson, the Great Khan Mongke, Nestorian Christianity was the primary religious influence in the Empire, and this also carried over to Mongol-controlled China, during the Yuan dynasty. It was ...
Many scholars of the House of Wisdom were of Assyrian Christian background. [90] [91] Indigenous Assyrians became second-class citizens in a greater Arab Islamic state. Those who resisted Arabization and conversion to Islam were subject to severe religious, ethnic, and cultural discrimination and had certain restrictions imposed upon them. [92]
Maron, also called Maroun or Maro (Syriac: ܡܪܘܢ, Mārōn; Arabic: مَارُون, Mārūn; Latin: Maron; Ancient Greek: Μάρων), was a 4th-century Syriac Christian hermit monk in the Taurus Mountains whose followers, after his death, founded a religious Christian movement that became known as the Maronite Church, in full communion with the Holy See and the Catholic Church. [5]
Regardless of religious affiliation (Assyrian Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Syriac Catholic Church, Assyrian Pentecostal Church, etc.) Assyrians Christians in Iraq and surrounding countries are one genetically homogeneous people and are of different origins than other groups in the country, with a ...