melkets

**gülay** · **17-09-2007, 17:13**

keldani church remaining from Melkets

**Bora Kılıç** · **17-09-2007, 18:42**

**eser** · **17-09-2007, 18:43**

en yakın bu var, ama emin değilim..

The term Melkite (also written Melchite) is used to refer to various Christian churches and their members originating in the Middle East. The word comes from the Syriac word malko (Syriac: ܡܠܟܝܐ), meaning imperial.[1] In Arabic, the word Mālikī (Arabic: ملكى,also means imperial,this word is also used for the otherwise unrelated Maliki Islamic branch).

The term melkite was originally used as a pejorative after the acrimonious division that occurred in Eastern Christianity after the Council of Chalcedon (451). It was used by non-Chalcedonians to refer to those who backed the council and the Byzantine Emperor (malik and its cognates are Semitic words for "king"). It is unknown at what period the Melkites began to use the term for themselves. The Melkites were generally Greek-speaking city-dwellers living in the west of the Levant and in Egypt, as opposed to the more provincial Syriac- and Coptic-speaking non-Chalcedonians. The Melkite Church was organised into three historic patriarchates — Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem — in union with the Patriarch of Constantinople. The non-Chalcedonians set up their own patriarchs in Alexandria (Coptic Orthodox Church) and Antioch (Syriac Orthodox Church). The Nubian kingdom of Makuria (in modern Sudan) in contrast to their Non-Chalcedonian neighbours, also practiced the Melkite faith, from c. 575 until c. 1300.

**ALI-KARABULUT** · **17-09-2007, 21:04**

Melkite (or Melchite)

1 : an Eastern Christian chiefly of Syria and Egypt adhering to Chalcedonian orthodoxy in preference to Monophysitism
2 : a member of a Uniate body derived from the Melchites

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