phyletism

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Greek φυλετισμός (fyletismós), from φυλέτης (fylétis, “tribesman”) + -ισμός (-ismós, “-ism”). === Noun === phyletism (uncountable) (Eastern Orthodoxy) The doctrine and practice of organizing churches along exclusive and nationalist lines, condemned as heretical by the Council of Constantinople in 1872. Synonym: ethnophyletism ==== Related terms ==== phyle, phyletic