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The '''Democratic Christian Church of Daxia and the East''' (Daxian: '''昆仑和东方民主基督教会''') formerly simply known as the '''Christian Church of the East''' is an independent Traditionalist Catholic denomination with its episcopal see in [[Daguo]], [[Daxia]]. Founded in 1644 by Deacon [[Quintulo Batiato]] (posthumously known as '''Pope Zosimus II''') after his excommunication from the Catholic Church for calling on an ecumenical council to depose Pope {{wp|Urban VIII}} for supposed anti-Christian deviancies. The Church does not recognize any of the [[Catholic Church]]'s popes after {{wp|Gregory XV}} and maintains that the Democratic Christian Church of Daxia and the East is the legitimate continuation of the papacy. The Church is lightly overseen by the Directorate of Religious Affairs, an organ controlled by the government of [[Daxia]]. The Church functioned in a fully autonomous way for the first century of its existence, with most of its early Popes being foreign-born. In 1751 the Qian dynasty passed an Edict of Toleration which gave the church relief from certain fiscal restrictions and gave it some semblance of official protection, however the Edict also stipulated that the office of Pope would have to be occupied by a person of Daxian origin.