The "Eastern Church" is a general term for the various ancient Christian communions of the Middle East and Eastern Europe, of which three groups remain today. "东方教会"是一个统称，为各古代基督教communions的中东和东欧，其中有三组留到今天。
The earliest decisive split in Christendom took place in 451 as a result of the Council of Chalcedon, which was called to consider the claims of the Monophysites.最早的决定性分裂基督教发生在451由于安理会的chalcedon ，这是所谓的考虑索赔的monophysites 。 The churches that rejected the statement of faith adopted by the council are the Armenian church, the Coptic church of Alexandria, the Ethiopian church, the Syrian church, and the Syrian church in India.教会否决声明的信仰安理会通过的是亚美尼亚教会，科普特教会的亚历山德里亚，埃塞俄比亚教会，叙利亚教会，叙利亚教会在印度。 Sometimes known as the Oriental Orthodox, these churches today include more than 22 million members.有时也被称为东方东正教，这些教会今天，包括2200多万党员。
The largest body, the Orthodox church, is in communion with the ecumenical patriarchate of Constantinople (Ýstanbul, Turkey).规模最大的机构，对东正教教堂，是在共融与宗主教的君士坦丁堡（ ýstanbul ，土耳其） 。
A third group of churches is known collectively as Eastern Rite churches, which recognize the authority of the Roman Catholic church.第三组的教堂是被统称为东部成年礼教堂，其中承认的权威，罗马天主教教堂。
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The Jacobite Church is an ancient Christian group, named for James (Iakub) Bar Adai, who, in Syria, led the Monophysite opposition to the affirmation of the two natures of Christ by the Council of Chalcedon (451).詹姆斯党教会，是一个古老的基督教团体，命名为詹姆斯（ iakub ）酒吧adai ，因为他们在叙利亚，带领monophysite反对以肯定的两个性质基督的，由理事会chalcedon （ 451 ） 。 Officially persecuted by the Roman Empire, the Monophysites received some sympathy from Empress Theodora, who in 543 arranged for the secret consecration of James as bishop of Edessa and as ecumenical metropolitan.正式迫害罗马帝国， monophysites得到了一些同情，从慈禧theodora ，他们在543安排了秘密consecration詹姆斯作为主教edessa并作为普世大都市。 This title implied that he assumed the task of perpetuating an initially illegal Monophysite hierarchy in Syria.这个名称暗示他就任后的任务不殆的一个最初非法monophysite等级叙利亚。 Supported by a substantial part of the population, the Jacobite church survived Byzantine persecution, Muslim occupation, and conquest by the Crusaders.支持，其中相当一部分的人口，詹姆士派教会存活拜占庭迫害，穆斯林占领和征服的，由十字军。 During the medieval period, a number of Jacobites became well known in the Muslim world, particularly as medical doctors and historians.在中世纪时期，一些jacobites成为当地十分有名，在穆斯林世界，尤其是医生和历史学家。
Headed by a patriarch of Antioch, who actually resides in Damascus, Syria, the church is sometimes designated as Syrian Orthodox.由一名元老安提，究竟是谁居住在叙利亚的大马士革，教会是有时被指定为叙利亚东正教。 The term Jacobite is also applied to the ancient Christian church of Malabâr, in India, which affiliated itself with the Syrian church in the 16th century but is independent today.任期詹姆斯党也适用于古老的基督教教堂malabâr ，在印度，它本身附属同叙利亚教会早在十六世纪，但独立于今日。 In Syria, Lebanon and Iraq, the Jacobite faithful number approximately 100,000.在叙利亚，黎巴嫩和伊拉克，詹姆士派信徒人数大约为10万人。 Small communities have been established in the US小型社区已经建立，在美国
Officially, the Jacobite church, maintaining its opposition to the Council of Chalcedon, confesses the "one divine-human nature" of Christ (Monophysitism).正式地，詹姆士派教会，维持其反对向安理会提交chalcedon ， confesses ， "一个神圣的人性"的基督（ monophysitism ） 。 It is separated from both Roman Catholicism and Orthodoxy but is in communion with the other Non-Chalcedonian, or Oriental Orthodox, churches - the Armenian, the Coptic, and the Ethiopian.它是分开的两个罗马天主教和东正教，但在与其他非chalcedonian ，或东方的东正教教堂-亚美尼亚人，科普特人，和埃塞俄比亚。 It uses Syriac as its liturgical language and keeps the ancient liturgical tradition of the church of Antioch.它使用叙利亚文，因为它的礼仪语言和保存古代礼仪的传统，教会安提。 Its entire membership speaks Arabic.在全体成员讲阿拉伯语。
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