#canon

• Autocephalous — Self-governing; used to describe a national Eastern Orthodox Church that is fully independent administratively and legally from any external hierarchical authority or foreign patriarchate, while maintaining full dogmatic communion.
• Archaic self-flagellation — An archaic, bookish, or etymological variant of the term 'autoflagelare', used primarily in old ecclesiastical texts or early 19th-century translations. It denotes the formal and solemn act of punishing one's own body through lashes or harsh fasting, preserved in contemporary lexicon only for stylistic or historical value.