The phrase "autonomous churches" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to churches that operate independently or have self-governing authority, often within a larger religious organization.
Example: "The region is known for its diverse religious practices, including several autonomous churches that maintain their own governance."
Alternatives: "independent churches" or "self-governing churches".
Scattered among more than 1,900 autonomous churches, they are far from monolithic and do not vote as a bloc.
Anglican Communion, religious body of national, independent, and autonomous churches throughout the world that adheres to the teachings of Anglicanism and that evolved from the Church of England.
Often incorrectly called the Sinai Independent Greek Orthodox Church, the monastic foundation is the smallest of the autonomous churches that together constitute the Eastern Orthodox church.
Most of the autonomous churches combined with other churches in their countries; for example, the Church of South India, which has been in existence since 1947, includes Anglicans, Methodists, Congregationalists, and Presbyterians.
The churches themselves were founded through the missionary work of white Baptist churches but became independent or were established as autonomous churches within the framework of the Baptist denomination.
One reason is that blacks counted on their autonomous churches as "an enormous laboratory of leadership development," said Andres Torres, director of a Latino public policy analysis institute at the University of Massachusetts and author of a book comparing the two groups.
The movement, however, became separate from its parent body and developed into an autonomous church.
Episcopal Church in the United States of America (ECUSA), also called the Episcopal Church or Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, autonomous church in the United States.
Greek archbishoprics and metropolitanates of Europe, North and South America, Australia and New Zealand, as well as the autonomous church of Finland, are also dependent on the patriarch of Constantinople.
The new group, the African Orthodox Autonomous Church South of the Sahara (with some 7,000 members in Uganda), made unsuccessful approaches to other Greek patriarchates.
He described the Ecumenical Patriarch's ob jections as "rather peculiar" and declared that the welfare of American Orthodoxy "ur gently requires" the founding of an autonomous church.
