• early Indian Christians were Nestorians until the arrival of Portuguese in the 16th century introducing Roman Catholicism to the country?

Facts on topics related to Nestorians

Nestorian

• Suyab, the 7th-century capital of the Western Turkic Khaganate, had Buddhist temples, Nestorian monasteries, Zoroastrian ossuaries, and Turkic bal-bals?

Eastern Orthodox Church

• Eastern Orthodox icon expert Father Egon Sendler is highly respected by many Eastern Orthodox scholars, despite being a Roman Catholic?
• Romanian clergyman Gavril Bănulescu-Bodoni (pictured) was the first head of the church in Bessarabia after the Russian annexation?
• Saint Mary of the Mongols (pictured) is the only Byzantine church in Constantinople to have remained Eastern Orthodox to this day?
• Elias Zoghby, a Melkite Catholic archbishop, attempted to re-establish communion between the Melkite Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church while maintaining communion with the Roman Catholic Church?
• the 11th century Duke Yaropolk Izyaslavich is an Eastern Orthodox saint?
• the Orthodox cave monastery in Bakota, Ukraine is said to have been founded by St. Anthony of Kiev?
• the Chinese government had no objections when the Eastern Orthodox Church canonized Metrophanes, Chi Sung and other martyrs of the Boxer Rebellion, but did object to canonizations by the Roman Catholic Church?
• the Akhtala monastery (pictured) was originally an Armenian Apostolic monastery that was converted into an Eastern Orthodox monastery in the 1200s?
• the semantron, intended for summoning Eastern Orthodox Christians to worship, has been used as a deadly weapon in church brawls?
• the Sviatohirsk Lavra (pictured), an Orthodox Christian monastery in eastern Ukraine that dates back to the 1500s, was recently rebuilt anew after being destroyed by the Soviets in the 1930s?