English
Etymology
From autocephalous + -y.
Pronunciation
Noun
autocephaly (countable and uncountable, plural autocephalies)
- (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
Translations
the organisational independence of a church
- Afrikaans: outokefalie
- Armenian: ինքնագլխություն (hy) (inkʻnaglxutʻyun), ավտոկեֆալություն (avtokefalutʻyun)
- Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 自主教會 / 自主教会 (zìzhǔ jiàohuì)
- Finnish: autokefalia (fi)
- French: autocéphalie
- Georgian: ავტოკეფალია (avṭoḳepalia)
- German: Autokephalie (de) f
- Greek: αυτοκεφαλία (el) f (aftokefalía)
- 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 (pl) f
- Romanian: autocefalie (ro) f
- Russian: автокефа́лия (ru) f (avtokefálija)
- Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: autocefalia f
- Ukrainian: автокефалія f (avtokefalija)
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