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Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913
The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913
by David Wilmshurst
ISBN: 9042908769
Format: Hardcover, 862pp
Pub. Date: January 2000
Publisher: Peeters Publishing
Series: Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Oriental
This careful and scholarly study assembles and discusses the available
evidence for the ecclesiastical organisation of the
Church of the East
(the
so-called 'Nestorian' church) in the Middle East between the fourteenth
and twentieth centuries. The author has built on the work of the late
J. M. Fiey, but has covered a wider geographical area and used a much
wider range of sources. Besides drawing on the memoirs of European and
American missionaries and other literary sources, the author has consulted
a large number of manuscript catalogues, many of which are only
accessible in Arabic sources, and has analysed the evidence of more than
2,500 East Syrian manuscript colophons to establish the dioceses of the
Church of the East at different periods, to identify its ecclesiastical elites
(patriarchs, bishops, priests, deacons and scribes), and to analyse the
rivalry between the church's traditionalist and Catholic wings after the
schism of 1552. The study contains a number of detailed maps, which localise hundreds of East Syrian villages in
Assyria, and will be an
indispensable reference tool for scholars of the Church of the East.
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