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| possessions = [[Western Europe]], [[Russia]], [[Turkey]],<ref name=archons393>{{Cite web|url=http://www.archons.org/news/detail.asp?id=393|title=Turkey remains on religious freedom "Watch List"|publisher=Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate|date=29 April 2010}}</ref> [[Azerbaijan]], [[Australia]], [[Armenia]]
| founder = [[Andrew the Apostle|Saint Andrew]] (Colchis); <br />[[Saint Nino]], [[Mirian III]] (Iberia)
| independence = From [[Church of Antioch|Antioch]] dates vary between 467-491 and 1010,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Meyendorff |first1=John |title=The Orthodox Church: Its Past and Its Role in the World Today |date=1996 |publisher=St Vladimir's Seminary Press |isbn=978-0-913836-81-1 |pages=159 |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/The_Orthodox_Church/E16XzwPdJtsC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Melchizedek+I+of+Georgia+antioch&pg=PA159&printsec=frontcover |language=en}}</ref>{{efn|See below, [[Georgian Orthodox Church#Autocephaly|Autocephaly]] for details on the process}}<br />From [[Russian Orthodox Church|Russia]] in 1917, 1943
| recognition = [[Autocephaly]] gradually conferred by the [[Church of Antioch]] and recognized by most of the Church, dates vary between 467-491 and 1010. Autocephaly quashed by the [[Russian Orthodox Church]] in 1811 on orders of the Tsar, partially restored in 1917, fully restored in 1943. Recognized by the [[Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople]] in 1990.
| separations = [[Abkhazian Orthodox Church]] (2009)
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