Phyletism or ethnophyletism (from Ancient Greek: ἔθνος, romanized: ethnos, lit. 'nation' and φυλετικός, phyletikos, 'tribal') is the principle of nationalities applied in the ecclesiastical domain: in other words, the conflation between church and nation. The term ethnophyletism designates the idea that a local autocephalous church should be based not on a local (ecclesial) criterion, but on an ethnophyletist, national or linguistic one.
Phyletism or ethnophyletism (from Ancient Greek: ἔθνος, romanized: ethnos, lit. 'nation' and φυλετικός, phyletikos, 'tribal') is the principle of nationalities applied in the ecclesiastical domain: in other words, the conflation between church and nation. The term ethnophyletism designates the idea that a local autocephalous church should be based not on a local (ecclesial) criterion, but on an ethnophyletist, national or linguistic one.
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