THE CANONICAL PRINCIPLES OF EPARCHIAL AUTONOMY IN THE ORTHODOX CHURCH
THE CANONICAL PRINCIPLES OF EPARCHIAL AUTONOMY IN THE ORTHODOX CHURCH
Author(s): Ioan Valentin IstratiSubject(s): History of Church(es), Eastern Orthodoxy, History of Religion
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: Synod; bishop; autonomy; harmony; communion;
Summary/Abstract: The decisional principle of the Orthodox Church is the eparchial autonomy, a special form of equality of the bishops, harmony of decisions and communion of love. Every local bishop has his eparchial autonomy and the primate of a nation, id est the patriarch, has no right to interfere into the local eparchy without the approval of all the bishops into a synod.
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 21
- Page Range: 423-427
- Page Count: 5
- Language: English