Question of Isolation of COE

[Paul Younan]

Hi Akhi

Yes, take that to the bank. The CoE had zero presence in any western council, and vice-versa.

It wasn't always contentious. It was pretty cordial most of the time. The CoE welcomed the decisions of Nicea and included them in their own canon law. We recite the creed every mass.

Ephesus was rejected outright, because of the way they treated two Greek Doctors of the Church, who died in the good grace of the Church before the council was assembled, and who couldn't come to their own defense. It had nothing to do with Nestorius, even though the CoE didn't feel he was wrong either.

The rejection was due to the way they treated Theodore and Diodore, both well respected doctors of the church, and famous and revered even in Persia.

+Shamasha

Hi, i found this:
John, bishop of Persia and India, was in Nicea! Mark & Ruth Dickens. "The Church of the East". Oxuscom.com. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
Kind regards
Michael

John who? Bishop of what diocese in the Church of the East? And who are "Mark and Ruth" Dickens?

Don't you think we would know if we had attended Nicea?

And do you think we would have needed Marutha to bring the decisions of the Nicene council to us 79 years after the fact, if we were already participants?

Seriously?

+Shamasha