holidays

Christian feast day: Mar Nestorius (in the Nestorian churches)

Mar (title)

Ecclesiastical title

Mar, also Mor in Western Syriac, is an Aramaic word meaning "my lord". The corresponding feminine forms in Syriac are Mart and Mort for "my lady".
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Nestorius

Archbishop of Constantinople, c. 428–431

Nestorius of Constantinople was an early Christian prelate who served as Archbishop of Constantinople from 10 April 428 to 11 July 431. He was a Christian theologian from the Catechetical School of Antioch, and several of his teachings in the fields of Christology and Mariology…
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Church of the East

Church of the East Syriac Rite of Christianity

The Church of the East or the East Syriac Church, also called the Church of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, the Persian Church, the Assyrian Church, the Babylonian Church, the Chaldean Church or the Nestorian Church, is one of three major branches of Eastern Nicene Christianity that arose…
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