COE

[oozeaddai]

Shlama Akhi Addai,

Unlike the CoE, other churches did actively proselytize and that's why you have the mess with the Chaldean church that you have today. Before the 16th-century "missionary efforts" (I intentionally enclosed the term in quotes) in Mesopotamia by a certain other Christian group, there was no such thing as a "Chaldean" church. Those people were part of the Church of the East. Same story on the Malabar coast of India. Remember that India is much further east of the Roman-Persian border than Mesopotamia is. Try to imagine how it came about that the majority of the CoE in India have now changed in "jurisdiction."
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Yeah I have in the past compared Rome and the uniate churches to Bill Gates and microsoft trying to gobble up all the smaller software compainies like Oracle, Netscape etc. And I actually was a little worried that if the COE did get absorbed it might loose some of its heritage. Because I know the Chaldeans high level clergy look very latin in the garb they wear. And of course other things have to be standardized to fit Rome, so some aspects of the old church heritage could be lost basically because of the process of trying to fit in.