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* In 466, the [[Church of Antioch]] elevated the bishop of Mtskheta to the rank of Catholicos of Kartli, thus making the [[Church of Georgia]] autocephalous.
* The [[Orthodox Church in America]] received autocephaly from the [[Church of Russia]] in 1970 (though that action is still not formally recognized by many of the other autocephalous Churches).
* The [[Orthodox Church of Ukraine]] received autocephaly from the [[Church of Constantinople]] in 2019 (though that action is still not formally recognized by many of the other autocephalous Churches).
But there were also cases in which two different Churches both claimed to be the mother Church of the same daughter and both granted autocephaly to that same daughter Church, at different times:
