proceed from the Father and the Son, as the West taught, but only from the Father. The separation, which had taken place periodically for brief intervals, became permanent in 1054. The church of the East, which prefers to think of itself as the Orthodox church because as it supposes it has remained more loyal to the teaching of the early church, suffered great losses by way of the formation of sects (the Armenian Christians, the Nestorians in Syria, the Thomas-Christians of Persia, the Monophysite-Jacobites