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| | Autocephaly - OrthodoxWiki |
 | | Autocephaly (literally "self-headed") is the status of a church within the Orthodox Church whose primatial bishop does not report to any higher-ranking bishop. | | | The Church of Albania claimed its autocephaly in 1922, which was recognized by Constantinople in 1937. | | | The autocephaly of the Church of Cyprus was recognized at the Third Ecumenical Council (431). |
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http://orthodoxwiki.org/Autocephaly
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| | All Content Copyright |
| | Autocephaly is the recognition by sister churches that the territorial church of America is mature. | | | Autocephaly is a natural maturation process and progression of a daughter church into a sister church. | | | The Patriarchs and churches meet together to recognize the maturity and autocephaly of the American Church. |
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| | Byzantine response to OCA autocephaly - OrthodoxWiki |
| | The Byzantine response to the autocephaly of the OCA consisted primarily in a number of letters and statements made in the early 1970s by the ancient autocephalous patriarchates of the Orthodox Church—the Churches of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem—along with the Church of Greece. | | | The grant of autocephaly served to regularize relations between the Church of Russia and the Metropolia and gave the latter much-needed self-governance. | | | Like most autocephalous Orthodox churches worldwide, the Byzantine churches rejected the grant of autocephaly by the Church of Russia to the American Metropolia (the former name of the OCA), and with the leadership of Patriarch Athenagoras I (Spyrou) of Constantinople, issued various responses detailing canonical, historical and practical arguments against the grant. |
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http://orthodoxwiki.org/Byzantine_response_to_OCA_autocephaly
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| | The Orthodox Church in America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | According to the 1970 Tomos of Autocephaly granted by the Russian Orthodox Church, the official name of this church body is The Autocephalous Orthodox Church in America[1] (http://www.oca.org/DOCtomos.asp?SID=12). | | | Tomos of Autocephaly (http://www.oca.org/DOCtomos.asp?SID=12) from the Russian Orthodox Church | | | The OCA's autocephaly is not currently recognized by all other autocephalous Orthodox Churches (e.g. |
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http://www.northmiami.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Orthodox_Church_in_America
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| | Religioscope - Macedonia: Church Deals Divides Public Opinion |
| | Autocephaly, which is akin to ecclesiastical independence, has ramifications that go way beyond the clergy and religious people. | | | The autocephaly camp believes the Nis talks are part of a wider Serbian plan to destabilise Macedonia and are particularly angered by the fact that the agreement questions even the name of its church. | | | The row erupted after the two bodies signed an agreement on May 17, 2002, which abolished the Macedonian church's independent autocephalous status - where it appointed its own head and was not subject to the rule of an archbishop - and made it an autonomous entity within the Serbian Orthodox Church. |
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http://www.religioscope.com/notes/2002/025_macedonia_back.htm
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| | HTC: The Path to Autocephaly and Beyond |
| | Autocephaly was simple the de jure recognition of the fact that its former American Diocese, established in 1794, was then, in 1970, a mature and independent Church. | | | The autocephaly received in 1970 healed this rupture with the Russian Church and, at the same time, preserved the independence and uniquely American mission and identity of the Orthodox Church in America. | | | The Orthodox Church in America became autocephalous in 1970, when the official proclamation, or Tomos, was approved by the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church. |
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http://www.holy-trinity.org/modern/theodosius.html
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| | Unity and Autocephaly: Mutually Exclusive? |
| | It must be borne in mind, however, that not until this recognition on the part of the Church of Constantinople was achieved, did the new autocephalous church consider herself equal to the existing autocephalous churches. | | | The starting point of any study regarding unity and autocephaly must be the study of the nature of the Church in general. | | | Hence, the canonical tradition of one bishop in one place reflects the ecclesiological principle of one Church headed by the Lord Jesus Christ. |
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| | Autocephalous |
| | It was used, for example, to justify the autocephaly of the Orthodox church of the new Polish republic following World War I. Usually, however, it has not been the concept of the state as such but rather that of the nation-state that has colored perceptions of autocephaly. | | | Unfortunately, the search for an adequate definition of autocephaly is not greatly simplified when one turns from modern church history to the more distant past, for the word "autocephalous" has had a variety of meanings over the centuries. | | | In all this controversy, one should also note the lack of correspondence between spiritual content and canonical forms, so that the very same church may be regarded by one party as autocephalous and by another as autonomous or possibly even as completely uncanonical. |
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http://www.stnicholas-billings.org/Practices/autocephalous.htm
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| | [Alb-club] ILLYRIA --Article (Part 2) |
| | The Autocephaly of the Albanian Orthodox Church and the independence of Albania are a one-time event, Mr. | | | The Albanian Orthodox faithful, with sacrifices, courage and wisdom, established and consecrated the Autocephaly of their Church in Berat, 1922. | | | Foundos, the Ecumenical Patriarch and his visit in Albania did not "establish the autocephaly of the Albanian Orthodox Church". |
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http://www.alb-net.com/pipermail/alb-club/Week-of-Mon-20000327/002696.html
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| | OCA - Q & A - Autocephaly |
| | If autocephaly was really so important to the Metropolia, why did the bishops negotiate secretly and make the decision by themselves without discussion with the church or the convocation of an All... | | | Is it not a fact that the autocephaly of the Metropolia as the Orthodox Church in America has caused greater divisions rather than greater union among the Orthodox people? | | | Why does the Patriarchate of Constantinople refuse to honor the autocephaly of the Orthodox Church in America? |
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http://www.oca.org/QAindex-autocephaly.asp?SID=3
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| | Religioscope - Macedonian Bishop Accused of Ecclesiastical Treason |
| | Autocephaly, which amounts to ecclesiastical independence, has a significance that transcends the clergy and the faithful - an independent Macedonian church is seen as an essential part of the country's nationhood. | | | However, campaigners for autocephaly note that with the recognition of other Orthodox churches withheld since 1967, their struggle is still incomplete. | | | At a secret meeting held at an undisclosed address outside Skopje on June 26, Bishop Petar of Australia and New Zealand, who originally brought Jovan into the Macedonian church, was given the task of bringing his former protege and "renegade" bishop back into the fold. |
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http://www.religioscope.com/articles/2002/007_macedonia.htm
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| | News and events |
| | It is worth to note that granting autocephaly to a Church is a very inconsistent issue in the teaching and the understading of the Orthodox Church, although it is very important. | | | The Serbian Orthodox Church Commission thought that the right to grant autocephaly "belongs to the Ecumenical Patriarchate or to the future Ecumenical Council", contrary to its former opinion that "it is a competency of the Mother Church". | | | Therefore, the Macedonian Orthodox Church has asked for an autocephaly from the Serbian Orthodox Church, in order to resolve the misunderstandings. |
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http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/news2.asp?id=845
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| | Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church |
| | More explicit and directly addressing the issue of Belarusan autocephaly was the 1924 tomes (charter) of the Ecumenical Patriarchate recognizing autocephaly of the Polish Orthodox Church, which said that the 1686 annexation of the Lithuanian (Belarusan) and Kievan (Ukrainian) Metropolinates by the Patriarchate of Moscow was contrary to canon law. | | | There are also some canonically established national Orthodox Churches that have declared their autocephaly but, mostly for political reasons, have yet not been recognized as such by the other Orthodox Churches. | | | Since in the past there never existed a Polish Orthodox Metropolinate, the autocephaly of the Polish Orthodox Church was recognized on the grounds that actually support recognition of the Belarusan and Ukrainian national Orthodox Churches. |
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http://www.belaoc.com/engl/introdaction2.htm
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| | Religion in Eastern Europe |
| | The possibility of a government proclamation of autocephaly was first discussed under the Hetmanate and was to have been implemented in the event that the pro‑Russian episcopate of the church refused to cooperate with the government on the matter. | | | It was in those years that the problems of Ukrainian Orthodox autocephaly and of relations between the Orthodox and Greek Catholic churches were first brought forward as matters of state policy. | | | The minister for religious affairs in the second Hetman government, Oleksander Lototsky, was now in a position to pose the question of autocephaly for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in absolutely unequivocal terms to those attending the sobor. |
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http://www.georgefox.edu/academics/undergrad/departments/soc-swk/ree/plokhy.html
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| | Strumica Diocese: News |
| | We do not ask for a Tomos of autocephaly from Constantinople, we are resolving the church problem between us and the Serbian Orthodox Church. | | | In this regard, in the Orthodox world whenever a question about the Macedonian Orthodox Church is raised, the representatives of the Serbian Orthodox Church always point out that this is their internal problem. | | | As I already pointed out, the problem is not in the autocephaly, the problem is pastoral and concerns the name âMacedonian Orthodox Churchâ. |
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http://www.mpc.org.mk/English/MPC/Strumica/news2.asp?id=231
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| | Theophilus Eardwine -- Sobornost: Uniting Orthodoxy in America |
| | The OCA is the first church structure in America to be granted autocephaly by its mother church. | | | First, the autocephaly of the OCA, as a monastic friend of mine says, "didn't work." Only a few small jurisdictions in the US gathered around the OCA's banner, but the majority of American Orthodox Christians remained under the omophoria of their traditional foreign churches. | | | Whatever the canonical rights or traditions with regard to the grant of autocephaly to the OCA, the existential reality "on the ground," so to speak, is that it is not autocephalous in the way that any of the rest of the world's autocephalous Orthodox churches are. |
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http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles5/EardwineUnity.php
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| | Congregationalist church governance |
| | In both nationalism and autocephaly, one unifying doctrine is given local expression, according to differences in language and customs. | | | An older, competing, but somewhat related theory, is sometimes called nationalism (in the Reformed churches tradition), or autocephaly (in the Eastern Orthodox Church tradition). | | | In nationalism (in recent times, more accurately called "culturalism"), there is no institutional accountability to churches with separate general assemblies, although churches with separate histories typically form voluntary confederations with one another. |
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http://toshare.dynup.net/en/Congregationalism.htm
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| | P-News ver. 1.15 |
| | This is the MPC's position in the talks with the Serbian Orthodox Church, which, as is well known, negates the MPC and its name, and threatens to proclaim church autonomy by appointing an exarch Jovan. | | | The Macedonian Orthodox Church has a similar dispute with the Greek Orthodox Church, which also does not recognize MPC's existence and autocephaly. | | | Skopje, 15 April, 2005-The Macedonian Orthodox Church (MPC) will not give up its own name and autocephaly. |
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http://www.makedonija.com/mic/vesti.php?pn=detail&id=402
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| | Re: Russian Church Is Evil |
| | We are not against legal autocephaly for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. | | | According to opinion polls, the majority of the Ukrainian Orthodox support the idea of an independent church and there are known cases in western Ukraine when the clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Moscow Patriarchy, conceal from their parishes the fact that they belong to the Russian Church. |
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http://www.brama.com/survey/messages/17174.html
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| | [ALBSA-Info] Fr. Arthur Liolin |
| | He claimed to be a defender of the Autocephaly of the Albanian Orthodox Church. | | | Note that Greek Bishop Janullatos was not spared attack in the Albanian press, here and in Albania, including debate in the Albanian parliament, for denouncing the NATO bombing in a chorus with many of his Greek compatriots. | | | Every shortcoming that might be gleaned of this man, Arthur, was glossed over so that he might continue to function as the sole guardian and leader of the Albanian spiritual resistance to the Greek usurpation of the Autocephaly of the Orthodox Church in Albania. |
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http://www.alb-net.com/pipermail/albsa-info/2001-March/001422.html
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| | Triple Anniversary |
| | The keynote address entitled: Gratitude and Renewal: The Spiritual and Missionary Significance of the Autocephaly, Patriarchate and of the Episcopal Ministry of the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church was given by His Eminence Daniel, Metropolitan of Moldova and Bucovina. | | | His Eminence said that “gratitude as a religious act of commemoration and thanksgiving is an act of culture of the human soul and of communion between the generations.” The autocephaly of the Romanian Orthodox Church was granted on April 25, 1885 with the signing of the Tomos by the Ecumenical Patriarch Joaquin IV. | | | Visibly moved by the triple anniversary of the Church, His Beatitude welcomed all the guests, expressing his gratitude for their presence. |
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http://www.romarch.org/eng/archive/anniversary0305.php
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| | HTC: The Church and America |
| | It is proper for this new Church, at the very beginning of its new historical road, to witness first of all to its brotherly Christian love for all other Orthodox Churches here in America as well as in the rest of the world. | | | There, before the tomb of the saint who is so intimately connected with the liberation of Russia from the Tartar yoke and the spiritual rebirth of the Russian Church was the autocephaly of the Orthodox Church in America proclaimed. | | | Our autocephaly was established by the Russian Church, which gave birth to our Church in America and Canada 175 years ago. |
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http://www.holy-trinity.org/ecclesiology/benigsen-church.html
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| | KARTULI IDEA - THE GEORGIAN IDEA |
| | In 1811 the Emperor's Court of Russia have unlawfully abolished the Autocephaly of the Georgian Orthodox Church. | | | In the 5th century the Patriarchate of Antiokh granted self-governance (Autocephaly) to the Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church. | | | In March, 1917, the Georgian Hierarchs have restored Autocephaly of the Georgian Orthodox Church [Link 2]. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Levan_Urushadze_98/Georgia.html
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| | ERPKIM Archive How the latest attempt to heal the schism in FYROM failed, August 17, 2005 |
| | autocephaly may be achieved only with consensus of the mother Church and in full canonical order of the Church. | | | In a latrocinium in July 1967 three dioceses in former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, which had belong to the Serbian Orthodox Church, unilaterally proclaimed their autocephaly (Church independence) without consent of the mother Patriarchate and other Orthodox Churches. | | | However, persistantly refusing the draft agreement "MOC" Bishops from FYROM gave no other choice to the Patriarchate at the end but to pursue the unity with those clergy and faithfull who sincerely want to live in Church unity and observe canonical tradition of the Church. |
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http://www.kosovo.com/news/archive/2005/August_17/2.html
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| | OCA - The Tomos of Autocephaly |
| | By “autocephaly,” which is confirmed in this decision, it is understood that the Autocephalous Orthodox Church in America shall: | | | Nicholas Cathedral and its possessions and residence, and also the property in Pine Bush, New York, shall be governed by the Most Holy Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia through a person representing him in the rank of Presbyter. | | | The Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church in North America is confirmed and proclaimed an Autocephalous Church and named “The Autocephalous Orthodox Church in America”; |
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http://www.oca.org/DOCtomos.asp?SID=12
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| | Ukrainian governmental interference in church affairs |
| | Here is an excerpt from the Message of the Council of Archpriests of the UOC to the Clergy and Faithful of Ukraine in conjunction with the fifth anniversary of the Church Council of Kharkiv: “We treat the will of the Ukrainian flock to achieve independence with understanding and a sense of responsibility. | | | The campaign for Orthodox autocephaly is a complete fiasco, and this on home turf, among millions of Orthodox believers truly devoted to the idea of Ukrainian autocephaly! | | | In November 1991, a Local Church Council was convened at the Kyiv Pecherska Lavra Monastery of the Caves attended by Ukrainian bishops, other clergymen, and adherents. |
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http://www.unicorne.org/orthodoxy/worldnews/anathema.htm
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| | Marriage & Dating Agency FAR LADY |
| | The Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate was created in June 1992 by Metropolitan Filaret (who had been removed from the direction of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate) and his supporters from a part of the episcopate of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. | | | He and Russian Orthodox Bishop Ivan Bondarchuk joined the movement for autocephaly and parishes began to join the Autocephalous Church. | | | The great majority of bishops of the UOC-MP eventually repudiated their signatures in support of autocephaly. |
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http://www.farlady.com/ukraine.php?page=6
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| | Ambrosi - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Ambrosi |
| | He was one of the leaders of the movement for the restoration of Autocephaly of the Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church in 1901-1917 (the Autocephaly of the Georgian Orthodox Church was abolished by the Tsarist Russian Empire in 1811). | | | In March, 1917 the Autocephaly of the Georgian Church was restored. | | | In March, 1917 Archimandrite Ambrosi was consecrated Metropolitan of Chkondidi (Western Georgia) and then transferred to Abkhazia. |
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http://www.encyclopedia-glossary.com/en/Ambrosi.html
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| | Based on the Memorandum, the Georgian Apostolic Autocephaly Orthodox Church shall be authorized to be involved into the teaching process at secondary schools. | | | On 22 January 2005 there was signed a Memorandum for Joint Commission of the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia and the Georgian Apostolic Autocephaly Orthodox Church at the Patriarchate of Georgia. | | | After fulfillment of articles 1, 2 and 3 of the present Memorandum, there shall be held an official ceremony of signing the Agreement on Collaboration in the Field of Education between State of Georgia and the Georgian Apostolic Autocephaly Orthodox Church. |
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| | PDS Russia Religion News August 2000 |
| | It is obvious that the status quo in relations among the Ukrainian Orthodox churches will be maintained and that church hierarchs will not make any compromises for the creation of a united Ukrainian local church. | | | It is interesting that it was from the words of Vice Premier Nikolai Zhulinsky, who conducted negotiations with Bartholomew I in the name of the Ukrainian government, that Ukrainian Orthodox believers learned the opinion of the ecumenical patriarch with regard to unification. | | | According to the vice premier, Bartholomew I declared in conversation with him that after a united all-Orthodox council of the Ukrainian church autocephaly would be granted and that at the council a patriarch of the local Ukrainian Orthodox church should be elected. |
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http://www.stetson.edu/~psteeves/relnews/0008d.html
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| | TEN |
| | The greater the daughter churches’ independence from their mother churches, the more freedom they have to act in concert with other Orthodox churches toward creating a unified Orthodox jurisdiction in this country. | | | Unfortunately, at the same time that most Orthodox jurisdictions in North America have moved to autonomy and autocephaly, some churches have been moving away from self-governance, most notably the Serbian and Greek Archdioceses. | | | Autonomy and autocephaly, in fact, may be the most pragmatic intermediate step toward Orthodox unity in this country. |
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http://www.orthodoxnews.netfirms.com/157/TEN.htm
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| | Professor of the Seminar’s University “St |
| | Professor of the Seminar’s University “St. Clement of Ohrid” in Skopje, Macedonia, Dr. Jovan Belcovski regarding the attempts of changes in the autocephaly statue and the MOC name. | | | Lately, there have been talks in 1967 the Macedonian Orthodox Church had an rebellion. | | | The MOC meets all requirements for an autocephaly |
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http://www.m-p-c.org/Avtokefalnost/avto-eng.htm
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| | St. Katherine Orthodox Church: About Orthodoxy |
| | In 1970, the Orthodox Church in Russia officially granted autocephaly (self rule) to its former mission in America as a self-governing Church and the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) was created. | | | At The St. Katherine The Great Martyr Orthodox Mission, the goals of Patriarch Tikhon have been met-- a parish of the Orthodox Church in America that conducts services entirely in English and uses the same calendar as most Americans. | | | Efforts continue to unite these various jurisdictions into one American Church, but the process takes time. |
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http://www.stkatherine.org/orthodoxy.html
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| | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (06/28/98) |
| | If you think the situation with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the U.S.A. is bad now, wait until Patriarch Bartholomew recognizes the "autocephaly" of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarchate. | | | So, just as the patriarch of Constantinople sold the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to Moscow 300 years ago, it will do so again. | | | Obviously, the two of them will make sure that "autocephaly" will be in name only, just as it is today "Ukrainian" in name only. |
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http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/1998/269819.shtml
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| | CINEAST Archives: Re: CE: Re: Autocephaly and Phyletism |
| | CINEAST Archives: Re: CE: Re: Autocephaly and Phyletism | | | Maybe in reply to: daniel.j.barton@us.army.mil: "CE: Re: Autocephaly and Phyletism" | | | Reply: Mary Lanser: "Re: CE: Re: Autocephaly and Phyletism" |
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| | International Communion of the Holy Christian Orthodox Church - vsItemDisplay |
| | We exhort the priests under our jurisdictions to teach, both by preaching and by the instruction of the young, especially the essential Christian truths professed by all the Christian confessions, to avoid, in discussing controverted doctrines, any violation of truth or charity, and in word and deed to set an example to the members. | | | We the undersigned Bishops, on behalf of our clergy and laity of the International Communion of the Holy Christian Orthodox Church, hereby proclaim and declare the autocephalous and independence of our portion of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church | | | Our autocephaly safeguards the canonical principle that local matters should be handled locally, among other things allowing the selection of bishops for the Communion whose life and work is known to the faithful among us and who are committed to “keep that which is committed to thy trust“, (I Timothy 6:20). |
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| | CIUS Press: Between Kyiv and Constantinople by Andre Partykevich |
| | Lototsky contributed greatly to the proclamation of the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and, as Ukraine's ambassador to Turkey in 1919–20, strove to gain official recognition of the church from the Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople. | | | The Ukrainian Orthodox Church, whose origins go back to the times of Kyivan-Rus', has played a fundamental role in the history of the Ukrainian people. | | | This study examines the life and writings of Oleksander Lototsky (1870–1939), who served as minister of religious affairs in the government of Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky (1918). |
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http://www.utoronto.ca/cius/publications/books/betweenkyivandconstantinople.htm
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| | Autonomy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In Eastern Christianity, autonomy is the status of a hierarchical church whose head bishop is appointed by a higher-ranking bishop, often a patriarch, who has no other authority over the autonomous church. | | | This status is one step short of autocephaly. | | | In computing, a peripheral that can be used with the computer turned off (for example, a multifunction printer/copier/fax machine that can still copy and fax without the computer being turned on), is autonomous. |
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| | Greek Orthodox Archdiocese - Articles by Justine Frangouli |
| | It based its resolution on the belief that Church of America is no longer a “Diaspora,” but a mature entity with a long history; a Church which, endowed with the necessary infrastructure, fulfills the conditions for autocephaly. | | | OCL (Orthodox Christian Laity), an organization set up some ten years ago and numbering about 1,000 members. | | | In a recent resolution passed at a conference held in Los Angeles on October 10 this year, OCL set autocephaly as the new goal of the Church of America. |
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| | BOOK NOTE: The quest for Ukrainian autocephaly (12/27/98) |
| | Lototsky became minister of religious affairs in the government of Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky (1918) and was involved in the Directory's proclamation of Ukrainian Orthodox autocephaly in January 1919. | | | Partykevich's book, the full title of which is "Between Kyiv and Constantinople: Oleksander Lototsky and the Quest for Ukrainian Autocephaly," examines a subject of particular importance for contemporary Ukrainian Orthodoxy: the autocephalous status of the Church and relations with the Patriarchate of Constantinople. | | | In the same year, he was appointed ambassador of the Ukrainian National Republic to Istanbul, where he devoted considerable effort to representing the cause of Ukrainian Orthodox autocephaly before the Patriarchate of Constantinople. |
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http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/1998/529810.shtml
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