Nestorius
Americannoun
noun
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Its split with the Western Church came when it accepted the doctrine of the dual nature of Christ propounded by Nestorius, a Fifth-Century Patriarch of Constantinople.
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At length Emperor Theodosius gave in, and in the summer of 431 the council, satisfied that Nestorius was a rank heretic, went home.
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Nestorius was deposed, but Nestorianism continued to flourish among the Assyrians.
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Nestorius, new Patriarch of Constantinople, had declared that Mary could not be truly called "Mother of God."
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This is clearly manifest from the cause of Nestorius.
From The Church of England cleared from the charge of Schism Upon Testimonies of Councils and Fathers of the first six centuries by Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)
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