Definition of Nestorian church

1. Noun. A Christian Church in the Middle East that followed Nestorianism; there is still a small Nestorian Church in Iraq.

Generic synonyms: Christian Church, Church

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nestorian Church

Nervous Nelly
Nerys
Nesokia
Nessa
Nesselrode
Nesselrode pudding
Nessie
Nessies
Nessler
Nessler's reagent
Nestor
Nestor Paz Zamora Commission
Nestor notabilis
Nestorian
Nestorian Church
Nestorianism
Nestorianisms
Nestorians
Nestorius
Net
NetBeans
Netanyahu
Netherlander
Netherlanders
Netherlandic
Netherlandish
Netherlands
Netherlands Antilles
Netherlands Guiana

Literary usage of Nestorian church

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"... near Cochin, in that year denounced Nestorius and his heresies, and put an end to the existence of the Indian nestorian church. ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The nestorian church which they founded, though cut off from the Catholic ... The official teaching of the nestorian church in the time of King Chosroes ..."

3. Narrative of a Tour Through Armenia, Kurdistan, Persia and Mesopotamia: With by Horatio Southgate (1840)
"The Church of Rome has given the name of Chaldeans to her proselytes from the nestorian church, and of Syrians to those from tho Jacobite Church. ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"(3) The nestorian church in Kurdistan, ... (4) The Chaldaean Church in communion with the See of Rome is a secession from the nestorian church, ..."

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