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The East Syrian Rite is a Christian liturgy, also known as the Thomasine Rite, Assyrian-Chaldean Rite,〔(Google books )〕 Assyrian Rite and the Persian Rite, originated in Edessa, Mesopotamia. It was used historically in the Church of the East, and remains in use in churches descended from it; namely the Assyrian Church of the East, the Ancient Church of the East, the Chaldean Catholic Church, and the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church. The latter two churches are Eastern Catholic Churches in full communion with the Holy See. ==Scope of usage== The Syrian and Mesopotamian Catholics are now commonly called Chaldeans (or Assyro-Chaldeans). The term ''Chaldean'', which in Syriac generally meant magician or astrologer, denoted in Latin and other European languages Syrian nationality, and the Syriac or Aramaic language. For Aramaic, it especially refers to that form which is found in certain chapters of Daniel. This usage continued until the Latin missionaries at Mosul in the seventeenth century adopted it to distinguish the Catholics of the East Syrian Rite from those of the West Syrian Rite, whom they call "Syrians". It is also used to distinguish from the Assyrian Church of the East, some of whom call themselves Assyrians, "Syrians" (Surayi), and even "Christians" only, though they do not repudiate the name "Nestorayi". Modern members of the Assyrian Church of the East and the Ancient Church of the East distinguish themselves from the rest of Christendom as the "Church of the East" or "Easterns", as opposed to "Westerns", by which they denote Latin Church, Orthodox, Syriac Orthodox, and Protestants. In recent times they have been called, chiefly by the Anglicans, the "Assyrian Church", a name which can be defended on archaeological grounds. Brightman, in his "Liturgies Eastern and Western", includes Chaldean and Malabar Catholics and Assyrians under "Persian Rite", and Bishop Arthur Maclean of Moray and Ross (Anglican) who in his lifetime was called the best living authority on the existing Assyrian Christians, calls them "East Syrians". The catalogue of liturgies in the British Museum has adopted the usual Roman Catholic nomenclature: * Chaldean Rite: that of the Chaldean Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East * Malabar Rite: Syro-Malabar Catholic Church * Syrian Rite: Syriac Orthodox and Syriac Catholics Most printed liturgies of these rites are Eastern Rite Catholic. The language of all three forms of the East Syrian Rite is the Eastern dialect of Syriac, a modern form of which is still spoken by the Assyrian Church of the East, the Ancient Church of the East (which broke away from the Assyrian Church of the East in the 1960s due to a dispute involving changes to the liturgical calendar, but is now in the process of reunification),〔http://theassyrian.com.au/news/global/ancient-church-of-the-east-moves-to-change-calendar〕 and the Chaldean Catholic Church. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「East Syrian Rite」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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