Church of the East
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The Holy, Ancient, and Apostolic Church of the East | |
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Ⲓ Ⲁⲅⲓⲁ, Ⲁⲣⲭⲁⲓⲁ ⲕⲁⲓ Ⲁⲡⲟⲥⲧⲟⲗⲓⲕⲓ Ⲉⲕⲕⲗⲓⲥⲓⲁ ⲧⲓⲥ Ⲁⲛⲁⲧⲟⲗⲓⲥ | |
Classification | Anatolian Christianity |
Orientation | Anatolian/Monophysite |
Scripture | Traditional Canon |
Theology | Traditional Severian Monophysitism |
Polity | Episcopal |
Patriarch of Marakanda | His Beatitude, Ephrem IV |
Language | !Syriac, Eschataean Hellian |
Headquarters | Marakanda |
Founder | Saint Simeon the Apostle |
Origin | 2nd century Marakanda |
The Holy, Ancient, and Apostolic Church of the East (Eschataean Hellian: Ⲓ Ⲁⲅⲓⲁ, Ⲁⲣⲭⲁⲓⲁ ⲕⲁⲓ Ⲁⲡⲟⲥⲧⲟⲗⲓⲕⲓ Ⲉⲕⲕⲗⲓⲥⲓⲁ ⲧⲓⲥ Ⲁⲛⲁⲧⲟⲗⲓⲥ), more commonly known, the Church of the East or as the Anatolian Church is the second-largest Epiphanian denomination in Verthandi, after Catholicism. Led by the Patriarch of Marakanda, the Church oversees a vast and diverse array of believers and traditions, with strong communities of believers across Tellures and Crocina, as well as diaspora communities in Cybelleum, Hibernia, and Aestia.