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The Holy Apostolic Catholic Church Of The East- continues According to synodical rules the Patriarch is elected and in the 15th century hereditary patriarch was introduced not by the majority of opinions but by coincidence that a patriarch was elected from the same family. This patriarch, Mar Baba, seized the opportunity of being elected from same family, changed the system of electing patriarch and made it hereditary from same family. Similarly metropolitans and bishops followed the decision and were appointed from the same family i.e. hereditary succession. Due to this change the followers of the church converted to other Christian faiths such as Roman Catholic, Orthodox, etc. and those who remained were mostly Assyrians. The Church of the East teaches that Jesus Christ was Perfect God and Perfect Man. Ot acknowledges two natures and two Q'numa in one person of the Son of God, - one authority. Q;numa is an Aramaic term whose nearest equivalent in the Western Languages is the Greek term "hypostasis", or the English word "substance" - the underlying essence of being. The church condemns the use of the term "Yaldath Alaha" - bearer of God - in referring to the blessed Virgin Mary, and uses instead the term Yaldath Mshikha - bearer of Christ.
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