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1. Autocephaly

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   The earliest articulation of the necessity for local ecclesiastical headship is often traced to the structure of the Pentarchy established after the First Council of Nicaea in 325 CE. While the Pentarchy implied a hierarchy of honor, the later development of autocephaly asserted jurisdictional equality among the major sees, save for Constantinople's unique honorific status as the "New Rome."
   The formal granting of autocephaly typically involved an act of Tome or Synodal Decree by an esta…