CHALDEANS

A modern sect of Christians in the East, in obedience to the see of Rome. Dr. Grant, in his Nestor i ans , quotes with approval the following pa age from Smith and Dwight’s Researches in Armenia : which is also confirmed by Mr. Badger, in his Nestor i ans and their Rituals (vol. i. p. 177–181). “In 1681, the Nestor i an metropolitan of Diarbekir, having quarrelled with his patriarch, was first consecrated by the pope Patriarch of the Chaldeans. The sect was as new as the office, and created for it. Converts to Papacy from the Nestor i ans” [not from the Jacobites, as Mr. Badger corrects Dr. Grant] “were dignified with the name of the Chaldean Church. It means no more than Papal Syrians, as we have in other parts Papal Armenians and Papal Greeks.” (See Nestor i ans. )