Tomos (Eastern Orthodox Church) in the context of "Holy Synod"

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⭐ Core Definition: Tomos (Eastern Orthodox Church)

A tomos (Greek: τόμος, romanized: tomos, lit. 'section', 'part of', 'part which is cut') in the Eastern Orthodox Church is a decree of the head of a particular Eastern Orthodox church on certain matters (such as the level of dependence of an autonomous church from its mother church).

Tomos is a Greek word; it can be literally translated as 'a section'. "In the narrower meaning in Orthodox church terminology, a tomos is [...] a scroll or a small book, but one with a very specific purpose — it codifies a decision by a Holy Synod, or council of Orthodox bishops." The translation of the word tomos in English is document.

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Tomos (Eastern Orthodox Church) in the context of Eastern Orthodox Church organization

The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church and commonly known simply as the Orthodox Church, is a communion composed of up to seventeen separate autocephalous (self-governing) hierarchical churches that profess Eastern Orthodoxy and recognise each other as canonical (regular) Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.

Each constituent church is self-governing; its highest-ranking bishop called the primate (a patriarch, a metropolitan or an archbishop) reports to no higher authority. Each regional church is composed of constituent eparchies (or dioceses) ruled by bishops. Some autocephalous churches have given an eparchy or group of eparchies with varying degrees of autonomy (meaning they have limited self-government). Such autonomous churches maintain varying levels of dependence on their mother church, usually defined in a tomos or another document of autonomy. In many cases, autonomous churches are almost completely self-governing, with the mother church retaining only the right to appoint the highest-ranking bishop (often an archbishop or metropolitan) of the autonomous church.

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Tomos (Eastern Orthodox Church) in the context of Autocephaly of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine

On 5 January 2019, Bartholomew I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, signed the tomos that officially recognized and established the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and granted it autocephaly (self-governorship). The events immediately leading to the grant of autocephaly were:

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← Eastern Orthodox Church organization ← Organization of the Eastern Orthodox Church ← Autocephaly of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine
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Autocephaly of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine → Orthodox Church of Ukraine → Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople → Bartholomew I of Constantinople → Greek language → Romanization of Greek → Literal translation → Eastern Orthodox Church → Decree → Patriarch → Autonomy (Eastern Orthodoxy) → Mother church → Holy Synod →