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May 24, 2022 · Patriarch Cyril II of Jerusalem, the first Patriarch of Jerusalem following the restoration of its independence from Constantinople in 1845. Here, then, is a timeline of when the fourteen universally-recognized autocephalous churches came into being in their modern form: 1845 Jerusalem. 1850 Greece. 1899 Antioch.
From the 320s, the Georgian Orthodox Church was under the jurisdiction of the Apostolic See of Antioch. The Georgian Orthodox Church become autocephalous (independent) in 466 when the Patriarchate of Antioch elevated the Bishop of Mtskheta to the rank of "Catholicos of Kartli".
The Eastern Orthodox Church, ... By 1957 about 22,000 Russian Orthodox churches had become active. ... A timeline showing the main autocephalous Eastern Orthodox ...
autocephalous church, in the modern usage of Eastern Orthodox canon law, church that enjoys total canonical and administrative independence and elects its own primates and bishops. The term autocephalous was used in medieval Byzantine law in its literal sense of “self-headed” (Greek: autokephalos ), or independent, and was applied in church ...
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On April 10, 1970, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church proclaimed the autocephaly of the “Metropolia.” Five weeks later, the official Tomos of Autocephaly, signed by all the Russian bishops and stamped with the Patriarchal seal, was handed over to the delegation of the new Autocephalous Orthodox Church in America. What had begun ...
May 26, 2022 · When speaking about the autocephaly of the Serbian Orthodox Church 800 years ago, one always has in mind that the history of events related to St. Sava is quite well known to the general public, but this time, what has particularly caught my attention is the question of how the autocephaly of the Serbian church and the surrounding events can be ...
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Oct 7, 2021 · The Greek War of Independence began 200 years ago, in 1821, and one of the big consequences of the war was the estrangement of the Orthodox Church in revolutionary Greece from its mother church of Constantinople. From the beginning of the revolution until 1833, the ecclesiastical situation in Greece was kind of a mess. (It […]
