I think the whole one bishop per metropolis is still an underlying issue.
When the people of an autocephalous church moved abroad if there wasn\'t a local Orthodox jurisdiction, often they brought Orthodoxy with them. So priests eventually came and well that didn\'t automatically mean these priests spoke the local language, so the local church became a cultural one. Eventually bishops came or were ordained by the respective autocephalous church as things became more organized.
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