Nestorian relates to Nestorianism, a Christological doctrine developed by Nestorius, leading to the Nestorian controversy and Nestorian Schism; it was condemned as heresy by the Council of Ephesus in 431.
"Nestorian" or "Nestorians" may also refer to:
- Church of the East, originally the church in the Sassanid Empire, which once accepted the Nestorian doctrine and split off from orthodoxy at the Nestorian Schism
- "Nestorian" script or East Syriac Maḏnḥāyā, a form of the Syriac alphabet
- "Nestorian" Stele in China
See also
- The Nestorian controversy, part of the Christological controversies of the 4th and 5th centuries
- Church of the East (disambiguation), any of several Churches that historically go back to the original Church of the East but developed doctrinal differences
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