{"slug": "church-of-the-east", "label": "Church of the East", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_East", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q989799", "qid": "Q989799", "description": "traditional church of Mesopotamia and India", "entries": 18, "years": 17, "span": [345, 1681], "span_label": ["345 CE", "1681 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Deaths", "count": 9}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 5}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "china", "label": "China", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "rome", "label": "Rome", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mosul", "label": "Mosul", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "constantinople", "label": "Constantinople", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "central-asia", "label": "Central Asia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "afghanistan", "label": "Afghanistan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "greater-khorasan", "label": "Greater Khorasan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-empire", "label": "Roman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "chang-an", "label": "Chang'an", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "shaanxi", "label": "Shaanxi", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 345, "year_label": "345 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Abdisho, member of the Church of the East", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1287502922#Date_unknown", "title": "345", "revid": 1287502922, "section": "Deaths › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 424, "year_label": "424 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Church of the East declares itself independent, under Catholicos of the East Dadisho.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367765710#Religion", "title": "424", "revid": 1367765710, "section": "Events › Religion"}}, {"year": 552, "year_label": "552 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Justinian I receives the first silkworm eggs from two Nestorian monks at Constantinople. They were sent to Central Asia (see 550) and smuggled the precious eggs from China hidden in rods of bamboo.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340800166#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "552", "revid": 1340800166, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 640, "year_label": "640 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Nestorian missionaries build the Daqin Pagoda in Chang'an (Shaanxi). Daqin is the name for the Roman Empire or the Near East.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364750340#Asia", "title": "640", "revid": 1364750340, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 659, "year_label": "659 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Ishoyahb III, patriarch of the Church of the East", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340804363#Deaths", "title": "659", "revid": 1340804363, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 825, "year_label": "825 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "A group of Persio-Assyrian adherents of the Church of the East, under the leadership of two Persian bishops Prod (or Proth, also known as Aphroth) and Sappor (also known as Sabrisho), reach Kerala, India and reside in Quilon.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340941320#India", "title": "825", "revid": 1340941320, "section": "Events › By place › India"}}, {"year": 858, "year_label": "858 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Theodosius, patriarch of the Church of the East", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341129132#Deaths", "title": "858", "revid": 1341129132, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 872, "year_label": "872 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Sargis, patriarch of the Church of the East", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267071842#Deaths", "title": "872", "revid": 1267071842, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1175, "year_label": "1175 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May 25", "text": "May 25 – Ishoyahb V, patriarch of the Church of the East", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362172106#Deaths", "title": "1175", "revid": 1362172106, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1225, "year_label": "1225 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "June 8", "text": "June 8 – Sabrisho IV, patriarch of the Church of the East", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1333322984#Deaths", "title": "1225", "revid": 1333322984, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1245, "year_label": "1245 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Yahballaha III, patriarch of the Church of the East (d. 1317)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355852673#Births", "title": "1245", "revid": 1355852673, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1256, "year_label": "1256 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 23", "text": "April 23 – Sabrisho V, patriarch of the Church of the East", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350995211#Deaths", "title": "1256", "revid": 1350995211, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1275, "year_label": "1275 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Rabban Bar Sauma, Chinese Nestorian monk, embarks on a pilgrimage from China to Jerusalem. He travels to Hotan, Kashgar, Taraz and Khorasan (modern Afghanistan).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365270169#Religion", "title": "1275", "revid": 1365270169, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 1317, "year_label": "1317 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 13", "text": "November 13 – Yahballaha III, Patriarch of the Church of the East in Byzantium, dies after serving 26 years as leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Timothy II of Seleucia-Ctesiphon will be elected to succeed him.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368785088#October_–_December", "title": "1317", "revid": 1368785088, "section": "Events › October – December"}}, {"year": 1317, "year_label": "1317 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 13", "text": "November 13 – Yahballaha III, Turkic patriarch of the Church of the East", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368785088#Deaths", "title": "1317", "revid": 1368785088, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1552, "year_label": "1552 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "November 18", "text": "November 18 – Simeon Sulaka arrives in Rome from the Middle Eastern city of Mosul and brings a letter asking Pope Julius III to appoint him as the Patriarch of the Church of the East, leader of the Chaldean Catholic Church.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364394581#October–December", "title": "1552", "revid": 1364394581, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1617, "year_label": "1617 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "May 26", "text": "May 26 – Eliya VIII becomes the new Patriarch of the Church of the East and leader of the Christians of Mesopotamia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367152520#April–June", "title": "1617", "revid": 1367152520, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1681, "year_label": "1681 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 23", "text": "June 23 – The Church of the East, an Eastern Orthodox rite in Mesopotamia (now Iraq), already split between two patriarchs in the Eliya line and the Shimun line, is split along a third line by the Roman Catholic Church when Mar Yousip of the Archdiocese of Amid (now Diyarbakır in Turkey) is proclaimed by Pope Innocent XI as Joseph I, \"Patriarch of the Chaldean nation deprived of its patriarch\", creating the \"Josephite line\" of the Chaldean Catholic Church.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361310073#April–June", "title": "1681", "revid": 1361310073, "section": "Events › April–June"}}]}