The shared center — held across the tradition
The old calendar is not a detail.
The church keeps the Julian reckoning for the fixed feasts, so its Nativity falls on 7 January by the civil calendar. The reforms of 1964 that moved the Assyrian church to the Gregorian calendar and shortened the fasts are, in this church's account, exactly the kind of decision a patriarch living abroad should not have taken alone.
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Held by most — broad, but not universal
Nothing doctrinal divides us from the Assyrian church.
Both bodies confess the same christology, use the same Hudra and the same Anaphora of Addai and Mari, and ordain in the same East Syriac tradition. Reunification has been discussed formally since 2010; a joint declaration was reached in 2015, one patriarch abdicated in 2022 in the hope of speeding it, and the two churches are still separate.
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