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* The [[Church of Japan|Japanese Orthodox Church]]
The self-governing churches receive their [[chrism]] from the Patriarch of Moscow and exercise their activities on the basis of patriarchal [[tomos]]. This claim of jurisdiction is disputed by other Orthodox churches in a number of cases (particularly in Estonia and Moldova, as well as in the [[diaspora]]; there are also major schismatic elements in Ukraine that want an [[autocephaly|autocephalous]] Ukrainian church), due mainly to the changing shape of the boundaries of Russia. Due to the moving of political borders in history, the canonical territory of the Russian church is not clearly defined—the 1593 Council of Constantinople which confirmed its [[autocephaly]] defined it as the territory of "Moscow, Russia, and all the Northern Lands."
The Ecumenical Patriarchate does not recognize Moscov's patriarchate Jurisdiction over Ukrainian Church.
A 1924 Tomos of Ecumenical Patriarchate says :" ...(for it is recorded that the first separation from our See of the Kyivan Metropolia and the Orthodox Metropolia of Lithuania and Poland, dependent upon it, as well as their incorporation within the Holy Moscovite Church was accomplished contrary to canon law, as also all that which was agreed upon regarding the full church autonomy of the Kyivan Metropolitan, who at the time had the title Exarch of the Ecumenical See)...
The question of Granting Ukrainian Orthodox Church authocephaly was met with anger from Russian Patriarch Alexy who attached and threatened Ecumenical Patriarch with schism. Patriarch Alexy sent a letter to all heads of churches accusing Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of ties with the Kiev Patriarchate and threatening the former with a schism “comparable to the events of 1054”.
The Church canon is specific to what is "canonic" territory of the church. And it is geographical boundaries. This is what Patriarchal and Synodical Act says about the Patriarchate of Moscow:
"The Patriarchate of Moscow, as the local Church and in accordance with its official founding ecclesiastical Acts, also has its canonical jurisdiction with geographical boundaries and geographical restrictions, according once again to the canonical teaching and ecclesiology of the Orthodox Church.
Its canonical jurisdiction - "the territory" - extends "to all Russia", namely as noted also above, within the boundaries of the Russian dominion and not beyond these."
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