page_title: Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
section_title: Present-day autocephalous churches previously under the Ecumenical Patriarchate
hierarchical_section_title: Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople / Present-day autocephalous churches previously under the Ecumenical Patriarchate
caption_attribution_description: English: Unification council of Orthodox Church in Ukraine Русский: Объединительный собор Украинской православной церкви Українська: Об'єднавчий собор Українських православних церков
context_page_description: The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople is one of the fourteen to sixteen autocephalous churches that together compose the Eastern Orthodox Church. It is headed by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, currently Bartholomew I, Archbishop of Constantinople.
  Because of its historical location as the capital of the former Eastern Roman Empire and its role as the mother church of most modern Orthodox churches, Constantinople holds a special place of honor within Orthodoxy and serves as the seat for the Ecumenical Patriarch, who enjoys the status of primus inter pares among the world's Eastern Orthodox prelates and is regarded as the representative and spiritual leader of Orthodox Christians.
  The Ecumenical Patriarchate promotes the expansion of the Christian faith and Orthodox doctrine, and the Ecumenical Patriarchs are involved in ecumenism and interfaith dialogue, charitable work, and the defense of Orthodox Christian traditions.
context_section_description: Bulgarian Orthodox Church; autocephaly granted in 870; autocephaly re-recognized in 1235 and 1945.
  Russian Orthodox Church; autocephaly recognized in 1589.
  Church of Greece (Archdiocese of Athens and All Greece); autocephaly recognised in 1850.
  Serbian Orthodox Church; autocephaly granted in 1219; abolished in 1463 and 1766, re-recognized in 1557 and 1879.
  Romanian Orthodox Church; autocephaly recognized in 1885.
  Polish Orthodox Church (Warsaw); autocephaly recognised in 1924 by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and in 1948 by the Russian Orthodox Church.
  Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania (Archdiocese of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania); autocephaly recognised in 1937.
  Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church (Metropolis of Prague, Czech Lands and Slovakia); autocephaly recognised in 1951 by the Russian Orthodox Church and in 1998 by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
  Orthodox Church of Ukraine; intention to grant autocephaly announced in 2018. Rejected by the Russian Orthodox Church, the Polish Orthodox Church, and the Serbian Orthodox Church. The Ecumenical Patriarchate granted autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine on 5 January 2019.
caption: Metropolitan Epiphanius and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko hugging Andriy Parubiy, after the unification council of Orthodox Church of Ukraine on 15 December 2018
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