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From the Mor Gabriel monastery dating back to 397 - this was the Assyrian Church of the East, which was due to the Roman-Sassanid wars, fully in Persia with no contact with the Christians in the Roman Empire

At St. Catherine's monastery in Sinai

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strictly from a historical point of view you have

1. Tertulian in 197 AD writing

But if there be any (heresies) which are bold enough to plant themselves in the midst of the apostolic age, that they may thereby seem to have been handed down by the apostles, because they existed in the time of the apostles, we can say: Let them produce the original records of their churches; let them unfold the roll of their bishops, running down in due succession from the beginning in such a manner that [that first bishop of theirs ] bishop shall be able to show for his ordainer and predecessor some one of the apostles or of apostolic men,— a man, moreover, who continued steadfast with the apostles.

For this is the manner in which the apostolic churches transmit their registers: as the church of Smyrna, which records that Polycarp was placed therein by John; as also the church of Rome, which makes Clement to have been ordained in like manner by Peter.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for sharing the artwork, dear brother in Christ! Do you have links so we can read more about them?