Noun
autocephaly (countable and uncountable, plural autocephalies)
(Christianity) The condition where a church's leaders have severed ties to a larger body and thus no longer report to a higher authority.
In April of this year, after a meeting with the heads of parliamentary factions, President Petro Poroshenko stated that he intended to appeal to the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to recognize the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Source: Internet
Talks about autocephaly have been going on for years. Source: Internet