Nestorian

Nestorian or Nestorians can refer to:

• Nestorianism, a Christological doctrine developed by Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople, condemned as heresy by the Council of Ephesus in 431
• The Nestorian controversy, part of the Christological controversies of the 4th and 5th centuries
• The Nestorian Schism resulting from the controversy and condemnation as heresy
• The Church of the East, originally the church of the Sassanid Empire, which accepted the Nestorian doctrine and split off from orthodoxy at the Nestorian Schism
• Nestorian Church (disambiguation), any of several Churches that historically go back to the original Church of the East but developed doctrinal differences
• East Syrian Rite, the liturgy of the Church of the East and other Nestorian Churches, also retained in some Churches now in communion with the Church of Rome
• The Madnḥāyā or Eastern form of the Syriac alphabet