Church of Greece
Eastern Orthodox · 1850 · Greece
Greek independence made an Ottoman-seated patriarch's jurisdiction untenable; the state declared autocephaly in 1833 and Constantinople regularized it by the tomos of 1850 — the pattern-case for every Balkan autocephaly after it.
Church of Greece was formed in 1850. Church of Greece continues today. Church of Greece's institutional line runs back through Eastern Orthodoxy to the post-apostolic church. No body on this tree is the assembly of Acts 2; where a body claims that, the claim appears in the claimed-lineage layer.
Between the post-apostolic church and Church of Greece stand 1 division along the institutional line, counting separations and disputed forks, not mergers, renewals or national organizations.
At a glance
- Formed
- In 1850
- Family
- Eastern Orthodox
- Region
- Greece
- Cause tags
- Politics, Governance
- Also known as
- Greek Orthodox Church (common usage)
What it was organized out of
- National organization of Eastern Orthodoxy, not a separation from it.
Bodies organized out of it or separated from it: Old Calendarists.
On the tree
Solid lines are separations and unions; dashed lines are renewals that began inside a body; dotted gray lines are national organizations of one communion; a diamond marks a fork event where neither side is drawn as the one that left. Every line runs back to the post-apostolic church; no body descends from the assembly of Acts 2. Dashed gray boxes mark the institutional line after the apostles, shown as departure; no line of descent is drawn from Pentecost. A verdict appears on a box once its section is published.
Sources
Research compiled July 2026. Page data built 2026-10-31.