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autocephalia

autocephalia is the alternative form of autocephaly.

Meaning of autocephaly

Noun

autocephaly (countable and uncountable, plural autocephalies)

  1. The condition where a church's leaders have severed ties to a larger body and thus no longer report to a higher authority.

Questions about autocephalia

What is autocephalia the alternative form of?
Autocephalia is the alternative form of autocephaly.

Words near autocephalia in the dictionary

  1. autocatheterization
  2. autocellular
  3. autocentric
  4. autocentrism
  5. autocentromere
  6. autocephalia
  7. autocephalic
  8. autocephalicity
  9. autocephalies
  10. autocephality
  11. autocephalous

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