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Churches recognize all other mainstream Eastern Orthodox or Oriental Orthodox churches and claim autocephaly, but are not recognised by any of them due to various disputes. Subcategories This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.
Autocephaly (/ ɔː t ə ˈ s ɛ f əl i /; from Greek: αὐτοκεφαλία, meaning "property of being self-headed") is the status of a hierarchical Christian church whose head bishop does not report to any higher-ranking bishop. The term is primarily used in Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches.
According to the April 1970 Tomos of Autocephaly granted by the Russian Orthodox Church, the official name of the church is The Autocephalous Orthodox Church in America. [12] The more comprehensive March 1970 Agreement of Tomos of Autocephaly , however, states in Article VIII that the legal name of the church was changed to Orthodox Church in ...
Sep. 17—Boys from Joplin and Carthage and a boy and a girl from Neosho are among 11 alleged victims of past sexual abuse by Catholic Church officials cited in a lawsuit filed last week against ...
Springfield United Methodist Church is a member of the Alexandria District in the Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church. [1] The first service of the church that would become Springfield Methodist was held in January 1954 at Garfield School. Thirty-three residents were in attendance along with representatives of the sponsoring ...
6911 Braddock Rd., Springfield, VA 22151: Country ... The church was founded in 1964 as a Baptist church (part of the General Association of Regular Baptists).
The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church and commonly known simply as the Orthodox Church is a communion composed of up to seventeen separate autocephalous (self-governing) hierarchical churches that profess Eastern Orthodoxy and recognise each other as canonical (regular) Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.
The religious jurisdictions of the Church of Greece (in blue) in Greece today. The tomos dated 29 June 1850 is the official decree of the Ecumenical Patriarchate which gave de jure autocephaly to the then- de facto autocephalous Church of Greece .