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Nes⋅to⋅ri⋅us

[ne-stawr-ee-uhs, -stohr-]
–noun
died a.d. 451?, Syrian ecclesiastic: patriarch of Constantinople 428–431.
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Nes·to·ri·us   (ně-stôr'ē-əs, -stōr'-)   
Syrian-born patriarch of Constantinople whose belief that Mary was the mother only of Jesus's human nature was declared heretical (431).
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