Persian Church
The Church of Persia , Church of Mesopotamia History Christianity spread to Persia from the second century. There it ran into a national religion, the Zoroastrian. Christians first appeared as likely to provide support to the Roman Empire and were persecuted. At a synod in 424 , the Church of Persia decreed its autocephalous by separating the Patriarchate of Antioch. In the late fifth century in 484 , the Church of Persia affirmed its adherence to the teaching theology of Theodore of Mopsuestia said dyophysisme (which earned him the adjective "Church Nestorian "). This allowed the Christians of Persia stand out from the Church of the Roman Empire. The Church of Persia and was the first in the East to secede from the Imperial Church and become independent. --- --- The Church of Persia was in the early centuries of its existence organized in six provinces and within provinces outside whose number has evolved with its expansion and its decline: Inland provinces Provinces outside After separation of the Church of Persia from the rest of Christendom, the other churches of the courts gradually created in the same territory: The Syriac Orthodox Church (Jacobite) created the Maphrianat of the East (based in Tikrit ). The Orthodox Church of Antioch (Byzantine / Melkite) created about it Catholicosate of Irenoupolis (Baghdad) (established in the seventh century, disappeared around the fifteenth century) See also List of the first Catholicos
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