Timeline of autocephaly of Eastern Orthodox churches

In the Eastern Orthodox Church, a "tomos of autocephaly" grants ecclesiastical independence from a mother church.^[1] As of 2025, there are 14 completely recognized autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches, with 3 partially recognized Eastern Orthodox churches.^[2][3]

The "date" column is determined the most recent date with support from a Patriarch (self-declared autocephaly is not taken into consideration). The "date" column also excludes former autocephaly halted by a force, and re-granted later.

Timeline of the History of the main autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches

  Tomoi accepted by all canonical Eastern Orthodox Churches

  Tomoi accepted by most canonical Eastern Orthodox Churches

  Tomoi accepted by no canonical Eastern Orthodox Churches*

*Any tomoi once proclaimed, but no longer accepted.

4th-century

Date	Granter	Recipient	Recognized by
325	First Council of Nicaea[4]	Patriarchate of Rome	Completely unrecognised after 1054
325	First Council of Nicaea	Patriarchate of Alexandria	Completely recognized by all canonical Eastern Orthodox Churches
325	First Council of Nicaea	Patriarch of Antioch	Completely recognized by all canonical Eastern Orthodox Churches
381	First Council of Constantinople[5]	Patriarchate of Constantinople	Completely recognized by all canonical Eastern Orthodox Churches[6]

5th-century

Date	Granter	Recipient	Recognized by
431	Council of Ephesus	Cypriot Orthodox Church	Completely recognized by all canonical Eastern Orthodox Churches
451	Council of Chalcedon	Patriarchate of Jerusalem	Completely recognized by all canonical Eastern Orthodox Churches

15th-century

See also: 15th–16th century Moscow–Constantinople schism

Date	Granter	Recipient	Recognized by
1448	De facto autocephaly following the Fall of Constantinople, Ivan III of Russia, Metropolitan Theodosius of Moscow[7]	Metropolis of Kiev and all Rus'	Completely unrecognised

16th-century

Date	Granter	Recipient	Recognized by
1589	Ecumenical Patriarch Jeremias II of Constantinople	Russian Orthodox Church[8][9]	Completely recognized by all canonical Eastern Orthodox Churches

19th-century

See also: Tomos dated 29 June 1850

Date	Granter	Recipient	Recognized by
29 June 1850	Ecumenical Patriarch Anthimus IV of Constantinople	Church of Greece[10]	Completely recognized by all canonical Eastern Orthodox Churches
1879	Ecumenical Patriarch Joachim III of Constantinople	Serbian Orthodox Church[11]	Completely recognized by all canonical Eastern Orthodox Churches
25 April 1885	Ecumenical Patriarch Jochim IV of Constantinople	Romanian Orthodox Church[12]	Completely recognized by all canonical Eastern Orthodox Churches

20th-century

Date	Granter	Recipient	Recognized by
13 November 1924	Ecumenical Patriarch Gregory VII of Constantinople	Polish Orthodox Church[13]	Completely recognized by all canonical Eastern Orthodox Churches
17 April 1937	Ecumenical Patriarch Benjamin I of Constantinople[14]	Albanian Orthodox Church	Completely recognized by all canonical Eastern Orthodox Churches
31 October 1943	Patriarch Sergius of Moscow[15]	Georgian Orthodox Church	Completely recognized by all canonical Eastern Orthodox Churches
1945	Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow	Bulgarian Orthodox Church	Completely recognized by all canonical Eastern Orthodox Churches
9 December 1951	Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow	Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia[16]	Completely recognized by all canonical Eastern Orthodox Churches
10 April 1970	Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow	Orthodox Church in America	Russian Orthodox Church, Georgian Orthodox Church, Polish Orthodox Church, Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Czech and Slovakian Orthodox Church[17]

21st-century

See also: 2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism

Date	Granter	Recipient	Recognized By
5 May 2019	Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople	Orthodox Church of Ukraine[18]	Patriarchate of Alexandria, Church of Greece, Ecumenical Patriarchate[19]
5 June 2022	Patriarch Porfirije of Serbia	Macedonian Orthodox Church	Romanian Orthodox Church, Serbian Orthodox Church, Russian Orthodox Church, Polish Orthodox Church, Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Czech and Slovakian Orthodox Church [20][21][22]