autocephalous

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  1. Having a head or chief of its own; independent of jurisdiction: applied to a church. The Russian Church became autocephalous, and its patriarch had immense power. Encyc. Brit., XI. 157.
  2. Acting as an independent head; having primary jurisdiction: as, an autocephalous bishop or metropolitan. We have seen Greece proclaim its Holy Governing Synod autocephalous. J. M. Neale, Eastern Church, i. 10.

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  • The first Serbian kingdom was created in 1170 A.D. by Stefan Nemanja, the founder of the Nemanjic dynasty, whose son was canonized as St. Sava and became the patron saint of the autocephalous Serbian Orthodox Church founded in 1219.
  • These independent churches are called autocephalous and several smaller churches are autonomous and under the authority of autocephalous bodies. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Your Holiness - Responding readily to the suggestion made in your reverend Holiness 'letter of August 8, 1922, that the autocephalous Church of Cyprus under our presidency should give its opinion as to the validity of Anglican Orders we have placed the matter before the Holy Synod in formal session. —  Hallowedground
  • And if having an "American Orthodox Church" means a self-conscious, "intellectually" - charged, renovation of the Faith in order to make it "fit" with the secular culture it finds itself more than willing to make a backdoor deal with, then may there never be an autocephalous Church in these lands. —  orrologion
  • But, if an American 'Patriarch' of an instantly autocephalous Orthodox Church for all Orthodox in North America is what is meant, well, then I don't care. —  orrologion
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  1. from LGr. αὐτοκέφαλος, from Greek αν)τός, self, + κεφαλή, head.
 

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