COE history

[Paul Younan]

Shlama Akhi Michael,

Yes, please see "John Stewart, Nestorian Missionary Enterprise: The Story of a Church on Fire (Edinburgh: T &T Clark, 1928), pp 204-213"

Whole peoples with their rulers had become Christians and it seems certain that there were few places in the whole Asia that were not reached at some time or other as the outcome of the marvelous activity of that wonderful church which extended from China to Jerusalem and Cyprus, and in the eleventh century is said to have outnumbered the Greek and Roman churches combined.

The estimated population at the turn of the 11th century was around 80 million souls. Then Tamerlane put an end to it (almost.) Within 200 years of it's height it went to only around 100,000 souls.