Father Jivko Panev: “Some remarks on the notion of autocephaly”

This timely study of autocephaly by Father Jivko Panev serves to remind us of days in which ‘autocephaly’ (the right of a group of dioceses to choose their senior hierarch without reference to external authority) was a much more widespread phenomenon than it is today. Within the Roman Empire, until the fourth century, each local province – and there were many of them – was an autocephalous metropolitanate. By the