| The fourteen autocephalous and autonomous churches were invited to send official delegates to this important event. |
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| Further, the Orthodox tradition, with its autocephalous churches and sufficiently full agreement in doctrine, presents an alternative to centralized authority. |
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| Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, autocephalous Oriental Orthodox church in Ethiopia. |
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| For the autocephalous churches that form the Eastern Orthodox Church, see Eastern Orthodox Church organization. |
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| Macedonians, Serbs, and Bulgarians, however, have established their own autocephalous Orthodox churches in an effort to assert the legitimacy of their national identities. |
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| An autocephalous Polish Orthodox church is partly linked with the small Belarusian minority, and a Ukrainian Uniate community survives in southeastern districts. |
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| Creation of new autonomous and autocephalous jurisdictions was also marked by tendencies of internal centralization. |
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| Primates of autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches below patriarchal rank are generally designated as archbishops. |
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| In 1219, autocephalous Serbian Orthodox Church was also organized as one ecclesiastical province, headed by archbishop with direct jurisdiction over all Serbian bishops. |
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| The Romanian Orthodox Church is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church in full communion with other Orthodox churches, with a Patriarch as its leader. |
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| A communion of autocephalous churches, each typically governed by Holy Synods, its bishops are equal by virtue of ordination, with doctrines summarised in the Nicene Creed. |
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| Of its several patriarchates four reminiscent the pentarchy, while its autocephalous and autonomous churches reflect or variety of hierarchical organisation. |
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