Nestorian schism

These events are known as the Nestorian Schism.

Nestorianism became a distinct sect following the Nestorian Schism, beginning in the 430s.

The Nestorian schism and Monophysite schisms of the 5th century divided the church into separate denominations.

The first major disagreement that led to a fracturing of the church was the so-called Nestorian Schism of the 5th century.

After the Council of Ephesus in 431 the Nestorian Schism created the Church of the East.

This upheaval was parallel to concurrent social issues in the Roman Empire where the Nestorian Schism divided the state church.

The differences with the Assyrian Church of the East led to the bitter Nestorian schism in the Syriac-speaking world.

As part of the Nestorian Schism, the Church of Seleucia-Ctesiphon cut itself off from the Catholic Church.

The early Christians there were forming the Church of the East (later known as the Nestorian Church after the Nestorian schism).

Following the Nestorian Schism, the Persian Church increasingly aligned itself with the Nestorians, a measure encouraged by the Zoroastrian ruling class.

They were divided by the Nestorian Schism in the 5th century, and from the 8th century, they became a religious minority following the Islamic conquest of Mesopotamia.

In the 5th century, as part of the Nestorian schism, the Persian Christians separated from the Christians of the Roman Empire.

The resulting conflict led to the Nestorian Schism, which separated the Church of the East from the Western Byzantine form of Christianity.

The Nestorian Schism was the first major schism of the Eastern Churches and was addressed with the Council of Ephesus.

Meanwhile, in the Roman Empire, the Nestorian Schism had led many of Nestorius' supporters to relocate to the Persian Empire.

Political pressure within Persia and cultural differences with western Christianity were mostly to blame for the Nestorian schism, in which the Church of the East was labelled heretical.

The Sassanid Emperor, hostile to the Roman Empire, saw the opportunity to ensure the loyalty of his Assyrian Christian subjects and lent support to the Nestorian schism.

The type of Christianity which the Mongols practiced was an Eastern Syriac form, which had an independent hierarchy from Western doctrine since the Nestorian Schism in the 5th century.

Nestorius and his doctrine were condemned at the First Council of Ephesus in 431, leading to the Nestorian Schism in which churches supporting Nestorius split from the rest of Christianity.

In church history, the Nestorian Schism of 431AD to 544AD involved a split between the Christian churches of Sassanid Persia, which affiliated with Nestorius, and churches that rejected him.

However, after the Nestorian Schism in 431, the teachings of Nestorius were branded heretical at the First Council of Ephesus and Nestorians were forced to relocate to the Sassanian Empire.

This was some twenty years before the Nestorian Schism divided the Church in Persia, which after the schism became known as the Church of the East, from the Church in the Roman Empire.

In 489, after the Nestorian Schism, the Byzantine emperor Zeno ordered the school summarily closed for its teachings of Nestorian doctrine, whereupon the scholars moved back to the School of Nisibis.

Nestorian relates to Nestorianism, a Christological doctrine developed by Nestorius, leading to the Nestorian controversy and Nestorian Schism; it was condemned as heresy by the Council of Ephesus in 431.

The First Council of Ephesus rejected Nestorius' view, causing churches centered around the School of Edessa, a city at the edge of the empire, to break with the imperial church (see Nestorian schism).