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Re:The oldest company in almost every country (that is still... by klipt on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @06:31PM (#22428658)
Oriental Orthodox Churches: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_Orthodox_Churches

Are probably the most "Middle Eastern", but apparently they, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Catholicism were all the same church until various splits happened, so I'm not sure if you can say any of them are "older".

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Re:The oldest company in almost every country (that is still... by alpha_squared on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @07:53PM (#22429271)
The Orthodox churches really just get to trace their lineage to their respective founding apostle. If we do assume that the apostles that had to travel the least from Jerusalem were the ones whose churches started first, then Syria and Egypt (Coptic) were probably the first. Granted, we're making a big assumption.
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Re:The oldest company in almost every country (that is still... by AdamN on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @06:42PM (#22428766)
When the splits are that old we call them "schisms" :-)
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