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The patriarch of the Church of the East (also known as patriarch of the East, patriarch of Babylon, the catholicose of the East or the grand metropolitan of the East)[1][2][3][4] is the patriarch, or leader and head bishop (sometimes referred to as Catholicos or universal leader) of the Church of the East.[2] The position dates to the early centuries of Christianity within the Sassanid Empire, and the Church has been known by a variety of names, including the Church of the East, Nestorian Church, the Persian Church, the Sassanid Church, or East Syrian.[5]
Thomas the Apostle (church tradition)[7] Papa bar Aggai (as bishop of Seleucia-Ctesiphon)[8]
Denomination
Church of the East
Rite
East Syriac Rite
Cathedral
Church of Kokhe,[9][10] Veh-Ardashir[11]
Language
Syriac
Since 1552, rival patriarchal lines were established, traditionalist on one side and pro-Catholic on the other. In modern times, patriarchal succession is claimed from this office to the patriarchal offices of the successor churches: the Chaldean Catholic Church, the Assyrian Church of the East, and the Ancient Church of the East.[12][13]
^Baum & Winkler (2003), p. 10.
^ abCarlson, Thomas A. (2018-09-06). Christianity in Fifteenth-Century Iraq. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-18627-9. The head of the hierarchy of the Church of the East was the Catholicos-Patriarch of the East
^Coakley (1999), p. 65, 66: "Catholikos-Patriarchs of the East who served on the throne of the church of koke in Seleucia-Ktesiphon".
^Walker 1985, p. 172: "this church had as its head a "catholicos" who came to be styled "Patriarch of the East" and had his seat originally at Seleucia-Ctesiphon (after 775 it was shifted to Baghdad)".
^Wilmshurst 2000, p. 4.
^Vine, Aubrey R. (1937). The Nestorian Churches. London: Independent Press. p. 104.
^Baumer, Christoph (2016). The Church of the East: An Illustrated History of Assyrian Christianity. Bloomsbury. p. 330. ISBN 9781838609344.
^Stewart, John (1928). Nestorian Missionary Enterprise: A Church on Fire. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark. p. 15.
^Cassis, Marica (2009-01-01). "Kokhe, Cradle of the Church of the East: An Archaeological and Comparative Study". Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies 2. Gorgias Press. pp. 62–78. doi:10.31826/9781463216207-007. ISBN 978-1-4632-1620-7.
^Cassis, Marica C. "Kokhe". Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition.
^"The Church in Kokhe".
^Burleson & Rompay 2011, p. 481-491.
^Wilmshurst 2019, p. 799–805.
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