💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Autocephality"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| autonomynoun | (uncountable) The right or condition of self-government; freedom to act or function independently. |
| autocephalynoun | (Christianity) The condition where a church's leaders have severed ties to a larger body and thus no longer report to a higher authority. |
| autocephalianoun | Alternative form of autocephaly. [(Christianity) The condition where a church's leaders have severed ties to a larger body and thus no longer report to a higher authority.] |
| alexandrian orthodox churchnoun | One of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches. |
| acephalinoun | (ecclesiastical history) Bishops and certain clergymen not under regular diocesan control. |
| church of greecenoun | One of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches. |
| apostolicitynoun | (Christianity) The quality of being apostolic, notably of preserving authenticity within the mission and tradition of the Christian church as founded by Jesus Christ and his twelve original Apostles, through their representatives and successors in the papacy and episcopate. |
| church of cyprusnoun | One of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches. |
| particular churchnoun | (Catholic canon law) Any of the individual constituent hierarchically ordered ecclesial communities in full communion with Rome that are part of the Catholic Church as a whole. |
| eparchynoun | (Christianity) In Eastern Christendom, a diocese of a bishop. |
| catholicosatenoun | (rare, Christianity) The jurisdiction of a catholicos. |
| autohomicidenoun | (psychology, rare) The act of suicide; the act of taking one's own life. |
| constantinopolitan orthodox churchnoun | One of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches. |
| antiochian orthodox churchnoun | One of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches. |
| cathedralismnoun | (Christianity) The cathedral system. |
| ascesisnoun | (Rigorous) self-discipline, particularly as a religious observance; asceticism. |
| georgian orthodox churchnoun | One of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches. |
| phyletismnoun | (Eastern Orthodoxy) The doctrine and practice of organizing churches along exclusive and nationalist lines, condemned as heretical by the Council of Constantinople in 1872. |
| stauropegionnoun | (later) In Eastern Orthodoxy and Eastern Catholicism, an autonomous Orthodox church body (church, monastery, brotherhood, lavra, theological school) which does not answer to any local hierarch, but is ruled directly by the highest authority of the church, i.e. the primate of the said church (e.g. a Patriarch) or in the case of the Russian Orthodox Church between 1721 and 1918 by the Most Holy Synod. Similar to a personal prelature. |
| ecclesiarchynoun | (religion, politics) A government ruled by or in conjunction with a religion; a church-state. |
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