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What is the history of the Church of the East and the Assyrian Church of the East?
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Thanks for the input.They are not Oriental Orthodox, so you might as well pose your question in other sections of CF
Very, because you have the ancient church in Kerala established by the Apostle Thomas who was martyred there in 53 AD, which contains some endogenous members of purely Jewish descent who survived a shipwreck (as there was a Jewish community in Kerala, the Kochin Jews, until the 20th century when nearly all emigrated to Israel, although their main Paradesi Synagogue in Kerala is preserved, but seldom has a minyan), and other members descended from those who converted from classical-era Hinduism or Judaism, and then you have churches that it set up missions to establish, such as the recently restarted Western Rite church in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), and then there are the Catholic Indians converted from indigenous faiths by the French and Portuguese, and the Protestant Indians, who belong mostly to the Church of South India, the Church of North India and the Church of Pakistan, which resulted from merging most of the missionary denominations who flourished during the British Raj, although these Uniting Churches have a somewhat Indian-incultured Anglican feeling to them and inherited membership in the Anglican Communion.How diverse is Christianity in India?