autocephalous , auch: autocephalic

Orthodoxy is thus made up of 15 or 16 national autocephalous bodies.

The first 9 of the autocephalous churches are led by patriarchs.

Smaller churches are autonomous and each have a mother church that is autocephalous.

About 840 the see stood twentieth among the autocephalous archbishoprics.

In the 5th-6th century it became the seat of an autocephalous archbishopric.

Moscow remained without a patriarch until 1917, though continuing to be an autocephalous Church.

It is an autocephalous church inside of the Eastern Orthodox communion.

Many Christian denominations have an autocephalous ecclesiastical hierarchy of leadership.

Being an autocephalous body, this group is not under the control or directly governed by the See of Alexandria.

Since 1 January 1962 the Australian church has been autocephalous and headed by its own primate.

Such actions may indicate that Algirdas envisioned an autocephalous church of his own.

During his second term he held secret negotiations with the Church of Greece which had declared itself autocephalous in 1833.

Each autocephalous church has the right to grant autocephaly to its ecclesiastical daughter communities.

The Serbian Orthodox Church also became autocephalous in 1879.

However, now most of the heads of the autocephalous churches sanctify their own myrrh.

In Ethiopia and Eritrea, their Churches have a recognized autocephalous status.

The following Oriental Orthodox churches are autocephalous and in full communion:

This claim is disputed by other autocephalous churches with diocese in those areas, as well as the Turkish government.

After the nation became independent, the question of an independent and an autocephalous Orthodox Church arose once again.

Similar motives lay behind his recognition of the autocephalous status of the Serbian Church.

Numerous autocephalous churches have been established in Eastern Europe and Slavic areas.

Serbia became autocephalous again in 1879, and its primate was recognized as patriarch by Constantinople in 1922.

The title patriarch is reserved for the primate of certain of the autocephalous Orthodox churches.

The first hierarch of the other autocephalous churches are styled metropolitan or archbishop.

(Some autocephalous churches get their chrism from others.)