Phyletism or ethnophyletism (from Greek ἔθνος ethnos `nation` and φυλετισμός phyletismos `tribalism`) is the principle of nationalities applied in the ecclesiastical domain: in other words, the conflation between Church and nation. The term ethnophyletismos designates the idea that a local autocephalous Church should be based n...
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(from the article `Eastern Orthodoxy`) ...on the same territory. Ecumenical Patriarch Anthimus VI convened a synod in Constantinople, which also included the Greek patriarchs of Alexandria ...
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