No?

The CotE was huge up into the 14th century

Fresh is Orthodox

it started declining after that

it was under very heavy persecution in the 20th century during the Assyrian genocide

yea, the church being based in Assyria was bad news

fuckin muzzies

Well, I don’t believe God would allow His Church to decline to such an extent. The gospel was said to be preached to all nations

A semi-Arian could have said that to an Orthodox Christian in the 4th century

The CotE spread Christianity to as far as China, Mongolia, and Japan

And it has been preserved in India to this day

The Arian crisis didn’t last for very long, your sect has been in decline for many centuries

Since the 14th

Before that, it was by many estimates larger than the Latin church

I would rather talk on theological grounds than appeals to the size of the church

one can say the catholic church and the orthodox church suffered the same

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The church is probably leaving its period of decline now, at least it seems so to me

Are you Assyrian?

No

Along with about 15% of the church

Well, I’m no theologian, so I’m not exactly equipped to debate that matter, but as a rule I don’t take seriously small sects claiming to be the true Church. Same with the Sedevecantists and those sorts of people

The difference with the Sedevecantists is that they do not occupy any apostolic see

Depends, there are Conclavists with their own ‘Popes’

Their elections weren't valid though

Church of the East has her own Sedevacantists, they are called Old Calendarists and elected their own Patriarch

Maybe not, but I don’t believe your hierarchy is valid either

Respectfully it is valid whether you believe it or not

The issue of our apostolic succession has been firmly settled

You might have ‘Apostolic succession’ in a physical sense, but it doesn’t mean you’re spiritually descended from the apostles. The Lutheran Church of Sweden will also claim apostolic succession

Stockholm isn't an apostolic see though

Bawai Soro proved Selecuia-Ctesiphon developed independently from Antioch in his book

Rome is an apostolic see, but I don’t think either of us would recognise the Pope as having legitimate succession

What do you mean a legitimate succession

Recognizing him as orthodox? Of course not

He’s a heretic

Right

So have ‘succession’ doesn’t matter much in that case

If the issue is whether or not we are heretics, we are not

Well, like I said, I don’t think I’m learned enough yet for a theological debate

That's fair