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Synod of 424 and Church of the East autonomy

Timeline Event · 424 CE; fifth-century estrangement · Sasanian Persian realm

About this date: 424 is a jurisdictional marker, not the founding of the Church of the East or a church created by Nestorius in 431. The surviving account of an explicit declaration of autonomy has been questioned, and the broader separation was a process shaped by political and theological factors.

The synod under Catholicos Dādīšōʿ barred appeals to churches west of the Sasanian realm, consolidating the Persian church's self-government. This preceded the Council of Ephesus in 431; reception of Antiochene Christology and the loss of communion with churches of the Roman Empire developed later in the fifth century.

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Shared subject; this bundled record was originally written with an Orthodox-informed editorial lens.

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