Orthodox Church of Constantinople

…was an early bishop of Constantinople whose views on the nature and person of Christ led to the calling of the Council of Ephesus in 431 and to Nestorianism, one of the major Christian heresies. A few small Nestorian churches still exist.

…century there were many: the Church of Constantinople (Istanbul), the Church of Alexandria (Africa), the Church of Antioch (with headquarters in Damascus, Syria), and the churches of Jerusalem, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Serbia

…between the rival sees of Constantinople, Alexandria, and Rome. When Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople in 428, adopted the Antiochene formula in his argument that the Virgin Mary could not rightly be called Theotokos (literally “God-bearer”), or the mother of Christ’s divine nature, he was perceived as stressing the human nature…