The church originally made up of the Christians of the Sasanid Empire, later known as the Nestorian church and characterised by its use of the East Syriac liturgical rite.
From Classical Syriac ܥܕܬܐ ܕܡܕܢܚܐ, so called as it predominated to the east of the border of the Christian Roman Empire. Used as a proper noun in English from .
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