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The Mission of the Church of the East to South India and Sri Lanka

    Harald Suermann

Iranianate and Syriac Christianity in Late Antiquity and Early Islamic Period, pp. 149-178, 2021/12/21

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Abstract

The starting point is the thesis that in pre-Islamic times there was a trade with the Roman Empire as well as with Persia in South-India. With the trade different Christian communities were established. The Romans may be more associated with the tradition of Bartholomew, the Persians with the Thomas tradition. With the decline of Roman trade with southern India, Roman Christianity gradually disappeared, assimilating to Thomas Christians. The tradition of the Apostle Thomas, originally associated with northern India and Persia, was brought to southern India with the increased missionary activity of the Persian Church.