within the Byzantine Empire." So a great wave of iconoclastic violence swept the Orthodox Church in the years following 700. The theological debates went on for well over a century, and were very ...

Eastern Orthodox churches today, to be differentiated from Roman ... became an image replicated throughout the Byzantine empire on coins, sacred vessels, icons, and objects of private prayer. The icon ...

Assyrians are Christians. They belong to three main Assyrian churches: 1) The Assyrian Church of the East ("Nestorian"), established in 33 A.D. by Theodos, Thomas, and Bartholomew; 2) the Syriac ...