autocephalous

adjective3

1. •
   Fully independent of the authority of any other church.

   • Poroshenko's speech was viscerally anti-Russian, and his loudest applause line came when he vowed to establish an autocephalous (independent from Moscow) Ukrainian Orthodox Church patriarchate. — 2020
2. •
   Presiding over an autocephalous church.
3. •
   Independent; not governed by others.