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Eastern Rite Churches These include the Uniate Churches that recognize the authority of the pope but keep their own traditional liturgies and those churches dating back to the fifth century that emancipated themselves from the Byzantine state church. They include the Melchites, Syrian Catholics, Maronites (Arab Christians in Lebanon), Catholic Copts and Ethiopians, the autonomous Nestorian Church, and others.
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- Nestorianism - Nestorianism Nestorianism, Christian heresy that held Jesus to be two distinct persons, closely and ...
- Nestorian Church - Nestorian Church Nestorian Church, Christian community of Iraq, Iran, and Malabar, India. It ...
- Maronites - Maronites (3 syl.). A Christian tribe of Syria in the eighth century; so called from the monastery ...
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