autocephalous

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Fully independent of the authority of any other church.

   “The defenders of Anglican independence maintain that there were anciently Churches autocephalous, dependent on no patriarch, and refer to the Churches of Cyprus as thus constituted, and allege that the British Churches enjoyed the same right of self-government and ordained their own prelates.”

2. sıfat Presiding over an autocephalous church.
3. sıfat Independent; not governed by others.