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==Ecclesiastical embassy church==
In the former case, the local territorial church grants a plot of land or a [[church]] building for the use of the foreign church being represented, and the location is then considered to belong canonically to the foreign church. Services held there are often in the language appropriate to the church being represented, and the congregation is often made up of immigrants or visitors from the nation associated with that church. Typically, a metochion presence on the territory of an autocephalous church is limited to only a few parishes at most.For example, the [[Russian Orthodox Church]] has a Podvorie in Tokyo, Japan. <ref> [http://www.sam.hi-ho.ne.jp/podvorie/ Podvorie of the Russian Orthodox Church in Japan] (in Russian) </ref>
==Dependency of a monastery==