Common Christological Declaration between the Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East
A statement of shared faith about Christ signed at Rome in 1994 by Pope John Paul II and Mar Dinkha IV, Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East. It begins from the Nicene Creed as the faith both churches inherit.
The Assyrian Church of the East descends from the ancient church of the Persian empire (see the Church of the East Organises at Seleucia-Ctesiphon). This declaration is an agreed statement on the person of Christ between that church and the Catholic Church, given at St Peter’s in Rome on 11 November 1994.
Its opening sentence describes both churches as heirs of the apostolic faith “as formulated by our common Fathers in the Nicene Creed”. It is cited here as a document in which the Church of the East states for itself that it holds the faith of Nicaea.
Cited in
- May AD 325, firm date
- June AD 431, firm date
- 1973 to 1994, firm date