Oriental Orthodoxy

Oriental Orthodoxy comprises those parts of the Eastern branch of Christianity that do not belong to Eastern Orthodoxy, namely the Monophysites and Nestorians. The term is often used, but is less than ideal, since "eastern" and "oriental" are in fact synonyms. (This particular terminology is also impossible in languages such as French, where the word for 'eastern' is the cognate of 'oriental'.)

Churches that fall under this designation include:

• The Coptic Orthodox Church
• The Armenian Orthodox Church
• The Indian Orthodox Church (the Thomas Christians in India)
• The Jacobites in Syria
• The Assyrian Church[?] in Iraq
• The Tawahido Church in Ethiopia
• The anewly autocephalous Eritrean Orthodox Church[?]