autocephalous

About 0.05 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Fully independent of the authority of any other church.
2. adjective Presiding over an autocephalous church.
3. adjective Independent; not governed by others.

Similar words

archbishopric autocephalic apostolical antiepiscopal catholic stauropegial oecumenical antiecclesiastical pandenominational christocentric

Often followed by

orthodox church churches status greek and serbian economic bulgarian

Word family

autocephalies autocephaly