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Ancient Church of the East

The Ancient Church of the East is an Eastern Christian denomination. It branched from the Assyrian Church of the East in 1964, under the leadership of Mar Toma Darmo (d. 1969). It is one of three Assyrian Churches that claim continuity with the historical Church of the East (the ancient Patriarchal Province of Seleucia-Ctesiphon), the others being the Assyrian Church of the East and the Chaldean Catholic Church. Since 1969, the see of the Ancient Church of the East is headquartered in Baghdad.[2]

Not to be confused with Assyrian Church of the East or Church of the East.

Ancient Church of the East

ACE

Eastern Christianity

Syriac Christianity

Gewargis III Younan

Syriac

East Syriac Rite

Baghdad, Iraq

Assyrian Church of the East

70,000 in 1968;[1] approx. 75 000, of which 45 000 in Iraq and 20 000 in India (1999)[2]

Organisation[edit]

Holy Synod[edit]

The Holy Synod is as follow:

(1968–1969)

Thoma Darmo

(1972–2022)

Addai II Giwargis

Yacob III Daniel (2022-2022)

Gewargis III Younan (9 June 2023 – present)

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Assyrian people

Chaldean Catholic Church

Chaldean Syrian Church

Church of the East

East Syrian Rite

(2003). The History of the Assyrian Church of the East in the Twentieth Century. Kottayam: St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute.

Mooken, Aprem

Hage, Wolfgang (2007). . Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag. ISBN 9783170176683.

Das orientalische Christentum

Coakley, James F. (1996). (PDF). Bulletin of the John Rylands Library. 78 (3): 179–198. doi:10.7227/BJRL.78.3.14.

"The Church of the East since 1914"