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• Thus, the Church of the East was, for centuries, the largest Christian church in terms of geography, and possibly numbers too. It goes back to Assyria, and was the Christian church of the early Persian Empire. It has remained faithful to its Aramaic heritage ever since, still using the Aramaic New Testament in liturgy and worship today.
• We go on to read:
• “The Church of the East was headed by the Patriarch of the East, continuing a line that, according to tradition, stretched back to the Apostolic Age.”