The Assyrian Church of the East is the ancient and historical Church that prays, preaches, and teaches the Orthodox and Catholic Christian faith in the lands East of the ancient Roman Empire. Since the first Christian missionaries went out to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the crucified and risen Lord, the Christians of the Eastern Middle East and India have simply called their faith the Holy Catholic Apostolic Church of the East. All Apostolic Christians see themselves as belonging to the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, which is the body of Christ, and we are those members who have been rooted in the Easternmost lands of the Apostles preaching.