• Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch)
  • Autonomous Orthodox Church of Finland (Archbishop of Karelia and All Finland)
  • Self-governing Orthodox Church of Crete (Archbishop of Crete)
  • Self-governing Orthodox Church of Korea (Metropolitan of Seoul and all Korea)
  • Self-governing Monastic Community of Mount Athos
  • Exarchate of Patmos (Patriarchal Exarch of Patmos)
  • Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain (Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain)
  • Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Italy and Malta (Orthodox Archbishop of Italy and Malta and Exarch of Southern Europe)
  • Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (Archbishop of America)
  • Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia (Archbishop of Australia)
  • Exarchate of the Philippines (Exarch of Philippines)
  • Patriarchal Exarchate for Orthodox Parishes of Russian Tradition in Western Europe (Archbishop of Komana)
• Patriarchate of Alexandria (His Most Divine Beatitude the Pope and Patriarch of the Great City of Alexandria, Libya, Pentapolis, Ethiopia, all the land of Egypt, and all Africa, Father of Fathers, Shepherd of Shepherds, Prelate of Prelates, Thirteenth of the Apostles, and Judge of the Œcumene)
• Patriarchate of Antioch (Patriarch of Antioch and all the East)
  • Self-governing Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America (Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of All North America)
• Patriarchate of Jerusalem (Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and all Palestine, and of Syria, Arabia, beyond the Jordan River, Cana of Galilee, and Sacred Zion)
  • Autonomous Church of Mount Sinai (Archbishop of Choreb, Sinai, and Raitha)
• Russian Orthodox Church – Moscow Patriarchate (Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia)
  • Autonomous Orthodox Church of Japan (Archbishop of Tokyo and Metropolitan of All Japan)
  • Autonomous Orthodox Church of China (defunct)
  • Self-governing Orthodox Church of Moldova (Metropolitan of Chisinau and all Moldova)
  • Self-governing Orthodox Church of Latvia (Metropolitan of Riga and all Latvia)
  • Self-governing Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York, First Hierarch of the Russian church abroad)
  • Exarchate of Belarus (Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus)
• Patriarchate of Serbia (Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci, Patriarch of the Serbs)
• Patriarchate of Romania (Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Ungro-Valachia, and Patriarch of All Romania)
• Patriarchate of Bulgaria (Metropolitan of Sofia and Patriarch of All Bulgaria)
  • Autonomous Orthodox Church of Italy (receaved the Autonomy in 1997 from Patriarch Pimen of Sofia)
• Patriarchate of Georgia (Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, the Archbishop of Mtskheta-Tbilisi and Metropolitan bishop of Abkhazia and Pitsunda.)
• Patriarchate of Kiev (Patriarch of Kiev and All Rus’ Ukraine – Holy Archimandrite of Kievopecherka Lavra)
• Orthodox Church of Cyprus (Archbishop of New Justiniana and all Cyprus)
• Orthodox  Church of Cyprus
• Orthodox Church of Greece (Archbishop of Athens and all Greece)
• Orthodox Church of Poland (Metropolitan of Warsaw and all Poland)
• Ukranian Autocephalous Orthodox Church
• Orthodox Church of Albania (Archbishop of Tirana and all Albania)
• Orthodox Church of the Czech lands and Slovakia (Archbishop of Prague, the Metropolitan of Czech lands and Slovakia or the Archbishop of Presov, the Metropolitan of Czech lands and Slovakia)
• Orthodox Church of Ucraine
• Orthodox Church in America (Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada)^{[Note 1]}

There are unresolved internal issues as to the autonomous or autocephalous status of the following Orthodox churches:

• Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church (Metropolitan of Tallinn and all Estonia) — Autonomy is recognized only by the Ecumenical Patriarchate, opposed only by the Russian Orthodox Church.
• Estonian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) (Metropolitan of Tallinn and all Estonia) — Autonomy not recognized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate
• Autonomous Archdiocese of Ohrid as the Macedonian Orthodox Church (Archbishop of Ohrid and Metropolitan of Skopje) – The Church proclaimed independence (autocephaly), but this is objected by the Serbian Orthodox Church as a schism. Though officially unrecognised by the other churches in the communion, the Macedonian Orthodox Church de facto communicates with many of the churches, ahymnographer from the Ecumenical Patriarchate wrote a liturgy for a canonization of matures in the Macedonian Church^[3] and a delegate from the Patriarchate was sent on a funeral of a Macedonian president where they met with representatives of the Macedonian Church; the Macedonian Church engaged in exchange of relics with the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, representatives of both churches met in official conferences and at the Bulgarian patriarch’s funeral, they celebrated a holiday together as well, where even Bulgarian representatives expressed love for the Macedonian Church’s dellegate as for brothers;^[4][5]the leading archbishop of the Church of Greece met with some Macedonians; together the patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church and a Macedonian priest participated in a chirotony, the Macedonian and Romanian churches exchanged relics as well.^[6]
• Self-governing Metropolis of Bessarabia, autonomy is objected by the Russian Orthodox Church
• HOLY ORTHODOX UKRAINIAN METROPOLIA  OF WESTERN EUROPE AND CANADA (Autonomy since 1993 from Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Patriarchate of Kiev.