The title patriarch is reserved for the primate of certain of the autocephalous Orthodox churches.

The koukoulion is also worn by the Patriarchs of some of the autocephalous Orthodox churches.

As in similar autocephalous Orthodox churches, the Church's highest governing body is the Holy Synod of bishops.

The Romanian Orthodox Church is an autocephalous Orthodox church.

The institute functions under the auspices of the Orthodox Church of France, which is independent of the autocephalous Orthodox churches.

Despite being born as an orthodox christian of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, Nosi had longed to form an autocephalous orthodox church of Albania.

Along with other autocephalous Orthodox churches, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church does not recognize the autocephaly of the Macedonian Orthodox Church.

Bogolepov, Alexander A. Toward an American Orthodox Church: The Establishment of an Autocephalous Orthodox Church.

The OCA's autocephaly is currently recognized only by a minor share of other autocephalous Orthodox Churches (e.g., the Church of Constantinople).

As a person with a professional theological education, Leontovych kept up with the movement of the establishment and recognition of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, which was reestablished in 1918.

The Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue Between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church was established by the Holy See and 14 autocephalous Orthodox churches.

In history and in canonical literature (i.e. the Church's canons and traditional commentaries on them), the Ecumenical Patriarchate has been granted certain prerogatives (presbeia) which other autocephalous Orthodox churches do not have.

In the late 1980s, three Orthodox churches claimed substantial memberships there: the Russian Orthodox Church, the Georgian Orthodox Church, and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (AOC).

Orthodox Church in America (the only autocephalous Orthodox church in North America, its autocephaly granted by the Patriarch of Moscow, is however not recognized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople)

In the early 20th century, during the heated debates concerning the status of the Georgian church, he was an active proponent of the Georgian autocephalist movement, calling for the restoration of the autocephalous Orthodox Church of Georgia abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.