Autocephalous in a sentence

Autocephalous churches may have one or more "autonomous" churches under their authority, which is exercised only at the time the autocephalous bishop appoints the highest-ranking bishop (an archbishop or metropolitan) of the autonomous church.

Speaking after their meeting, Bartholomew said that the election of Georgios as the prelate of the autocephalous church of Cyprus indicated that the two churches would continue moving forward together.

Administratively, these bishops and their territories are organized into various autocephalous groups or synods of bishops who gather together at least twice a year to discuss the state of affairs within their respective sees.

Autocephalous archbishoprics follow the patriarchates in seniority, with the Church of Cyprus being the only ancient one ( AD 431).

Below is a list of the 14 (15) autocephalous Orthodox churches, all of which are titled equal to each other, but the Ecumenical Patriarchate is titled first among equals.

Church governance The Orthodox Church is a communion comprising the fifteen separate autocephalous hierarchical churches that recognize each other as "canonical" Orthodox Christian churches.

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

However, recognition of this autocephalous status is not universal, as the Ecumenical Patriarch (under whom is the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America ) and some other jurisdictions have not officially accepted it.

Including all the autocephalous churches under its supervision, its adherents number more than 150 million worldwide—about half of the 300 million estimated adherents of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

In Eastern Orthodoxy, all autocephalous primates are seen as collectively gathering around Christ, with other archbishops and bishops gathering around them, and so forth, in a model called "conciliar hierarchy".

Many Christian denominations have an autocephalous ecclesiastical hierarchy of leadership.

Moskóvskiy patriarkhát), citation is one of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches, in full communion with other Eastern Orthodox patriarchates.

Numerous autocephalous churches were established in Europe: Russia, Greece, Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine, as well as Asia.

Present The various autocephalous and autonomous synods of the Orthodox Church are distinct in terms of administration and local culture, but for the most part exist in full communion with one another.

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

Such councils are deemed to have authority superior to that of an autocephalous church or its ranking bishop.

The purpose was to provide a means for Old Catholic churches which embraced the theology and beliefs of the undivided Church to come together in communion while remaining fully autocephalous.

This is however a misnomer, since both the Ethiopian and the Eritrean Churches, although daughter churches of the Church of Alexandria, are currently autocephalous churches.

While bishops and their autocephalous synods have the ability to administer guidance in individual cases, their actions do not usually set precedents that affect the entire Church.