How has Constantinople understood the granting of autocephaly in the past? How has it changed over the years? Who can grant it, when, and for what reasons? Can the Ecumenical Patriarchate act unilaterally? What do the other patriarchates and theologians think about the topic? It is not light reading; so you aren't going to find many (any?) bumper sticker slogans to put on your car.
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Blogs like this totally miss the point. Even if the ecumenical patriarchate does have a unilateral right to grant autocephaly, to give it to notorious defrocked schismatics like Filaret Denysenko or the self-consecrated psuedo-hierarchy of the UAOC would be a huge abuse of that power which still must be resisted.
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