Definitions For Autocephaly

Noun

AUTOCEPHALY. (countable and uncountable, plural AUTOCEPHALYs) (Christianity) The condition where a church's leaders have severed ties to a larger body and thus no longer report to a higher authority.

Derived terms

autocephalous

Translations

Afrikaans: outokefalie Armenian: ինքնագլխություն, ավտոկեֆալություն Bulgarian: {{t-needed, bg}} Chinese: : Mandarin: 自主教會 (zìzhǔ jiàohuì) Finnish: autokefalia French: autocéphalie Georgian: ავტოკეფალია, sc=Geor German: Autokephalie, f Greek: αυτοκεφαλία, f, sc=Grek Hungarian: autokefália Italian: autocefalia, f Japanese: 独立正教会 (どくりつせいきょうかい, dokuritsuseikyōkai) Latin: autocephalia, f Polish: autokefalia, f Romanian: autocefalie, f Russian: автокефалия, f, sc=Cyrl Serbo-Croatian: {{t-needed, sh}} Spanish: autocefalia, f Ukrainian: автокефалія, f, sc=Cyrl