"autocephalous" metropolitans had no suffragan bishops, and depended directly on the patriarch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

"autocephalous" archdiocese, finally a metropolitan see; the dates of these changes are uncertain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference

Servian, Montenegrin and Greek churches are, however, in reality autocephalous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

There are several Orthodox autocephalous churches in the world, most of them national.    From Wordnik.com.  [Belarus: Church Destruction Sparks Outrage] Reference

Constantinople with Mount Athos and the various autocephalous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

Archbishop Maurus who had aimed at making Ravenna autocephalous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference

In the ninth century it had become an autocephalous archdiocese.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference

Albania: Recognised autocephalous in 1937 by Ecumenical Patriarch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

At first dependent on Synnada, the see became autocephalous between.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

Just as Dušan and other Balkan princes had made of an autocephalous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1] Reference

Greeks in 1908 it was elevated to an autocephalous metropolitan see.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

Until this time Mitylene was only an autocephalous archbishopric; the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

About 840 the see stood twentieth among the autocephalous archbishoprics.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

About 650 it was already an autocephalous archdiocese directly dependent on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

The jurisdictional regions also include other autocephalous and autonomous divisions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

In the Middle Ages it was an autocephalous archdiocese, originally dependent on Cyzicus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

Aphrodisias, Miletus afterwards became an autocephalous archdiocese and even a metropolis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

Besides this there were still sees autocephalous in the sense that they owned no superior or metropolitan bishop.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003] Reference

The archbishops do not differ from autocephalous metropolitans, except as being inferior to them in the hierarchy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

Province of Scythia formed a single diocese, that of Tomi, and autocephalous archdiocese, subject to the patriarch of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

Serbia: Serbia's autocephalous stature dates from mid 14th century, was briefly lost and restored in the mid 16th century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Pseudo-Epiphanius (ed. Gelzer, 535) ranks it as an autocephalous archdiocese, which title it probably received when Justinian.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

His patriarchate extends to the Lebanon on the north and the Red Sea on the south (except the autocephalous convent on Sinai).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference