| I think that we should not hold to fast to terms such as autocephaly and autonomy. |
| When neighbouring Eritrea gained independence from Ethiopia in 1993, it appealed to Pope Shenouda III, the patriarch of the Coptic church, for autocephaly. |
| The only reason for this persecution is that the Georgian clergy unanimously support the autocephaly of their church, which has existed for 15 centuries. |
| After the country gained its independence, it appealed to the patriarch of the Coptic church for autocephaly, which was granted. |
| A reminder that the Romanian Orthodox Church gave the blessing in the declaration of the autocephaly of the Macedonian Orthodox Church. |
| Between 1944 and 1948 the ROC put an end to the autonomy of the Latvian Orthodox Church, and to the autocephaly of the Polish Orthodox Church and tried to assimilate forcibly also the Finnish Orthodox Church. |
