page_title: Tomos (Eastern Orthodox Church)
hierarchical_section_title: Tomos (Eastern Orthodox Church)
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context_page_description: A tomos in the Eastern Orthodox Church is a decree of the head of a particular Orthodox church on certain matters.
  "Tomos" is a Greek word; it can be literally translated as "a section". "In the narrower meaning in Orthodox church terminology, a tomos is [...] a scroll or a small book, but one with a very specific purpose — it codifies a decision by a Holy Synod, or council of Orthodox bishops." The translation of the word tomos in English is document.
context_section_description: A tomos (Greek: τόμος, romanized: tomos, lit. 'section, part of, part which is cut') in the Eastern Orthodox Church is a decree of the head of a particular Orthodox church on certain matters (such as the level of dependence of an autonomous church from its mother church).
  "Tomos" is a Greek word; it can be literally translated as "a section". "In the narrower meaning in Orthodox church terminology, a tomos is [...] a scroll or a small book, but one with a very specific purpose — it codifies a decision by a Holy Synod, or council of Orthodox bishops." The translation of the word tomos in English is document.
caption: Tomos of autocephaly of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, signed by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I on 5 January 2019.
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