User:Djwilms/Dioceses of the Church of the East
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At the height of its power, in the tenth century, the Assyrian Church of the East (the so-called 'Nestorian Church') had well over a hundred dioceses, stretching from Egypt to China. These dioceses were organised into six 'interior' provinces, dating back to the fifth century and aligned along the banks of the Tigris in the Church's heartland in Mespotamia, and a dozen or more 'exterior provinces'. Most of the 'exterior provinces' were located in Iran, Central Asia, India and China, testifying to the Church's remarkable eastern expansion in the Middle Ages. A number of East Syrian dioceses were also established in the towns of the eastern Mediterranean, in Palestine, Syria, Cilicia, Cyprus and Egypt.