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Definition of Nestorian Church
1. Noun. A Christian Church in the Middle East that followed Nestorianism; there is still a small Nestorian Church in Iraq.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nestorian Church
Literary usage of Nestorian Church
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"... near Cochin, in that year denounced Nestorius and his heresies, and put an
end to the existence of the Indian Nestorian Church. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The Nestorian Church which they founded, though cut off from the Catholic ...
The official teaching of the Nestorian Church in the time of King Chosroes ..."
3. Narrative of a Tour Through Armenia, Kurdistan, Persia and Mesopotamia: With by Horatio Southgate (1840)
"The Church of Rome has given the name of Chaldeans to her proselytes from the
Nestorian Church, and of Syrians to those from tho Jacobite Church. ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"(3) The Nestorian Church in Kurdistan, ... (4) The Chaldaean Church in communion
with the See of Rome is a secession from the Nestorian Church, ..."
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