Church of the East

traditional church of Mesopotamia and India

18 dated entries naming Church of the East, drawn from 17 separate years between 345 CE and 1681 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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4th century

345Abdisho, member of the Church of the Eastsource

5th century

424Church of the East declares itself independent, under Catholicos of the East Dadisho.source

6th century

552Justinian 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.source

7th century

640Nestorian missionaries build the Daqin Pagoda in Chang'an (Shaanxi). Daqin is the name for the Roman Empire or the Near East.source
659Ishoyahb III, patriarch of the Church of the Eastsource

9th century

825A 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.source
858Theodosius, patriarch of the Church of the Eastsource
872Sargis, patriarch of the Church of the Eastsource

12th century

1175May 25 – Ishoyahb V, patriarch of the Church of the Eastsource

13th century

1225June 8 – Sabrisho IV, patriarch of the Church of the Eastsource
1245Yahballaha III, patriarch of the Church of the East (d. 1317)source
1256April 23 – Sabrisho V, patriarch of the Church of the Eastsource
1275Rabban Bar Sauma, Chinese Nestorian monk, embarks on a pilgrimage from China to Jerusalem. He travels to Hotan, Kashgar, Taraz and Khorasan (modern Afghanistan).source

14th century

1317November 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.source
1317November 13 – Yahballaha III, Turkic patriarch of the Church of the Eastsource

16th century

1552November 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.source

17th century

1617May 26 – Eliya VIII becomes the new Patriarch of the Church of the East and leader of the Christians of Mesopotamia.source
1681June 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.source