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The Serbian Orthodox Church is one of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.

It is the second oldest Slavic Orthodox Church in the world (after the Bulgarian Orthodox Church).

The Orthodox Church in America (OCA) is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church in North America.

The OCA consists of more than 700 parishes, missions, communities, monasteries and institutions in the United States and Canada.

In 2011, it had an estimated 84,900 members in the United States.

Autocephaly (from, meaning 'self-headed') is the status of a hierarchical Christian Church whose head bishop does not report to any higher-ranking bishop (used especially in Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches).

An archpriest is an ecclesiastical title for certain priests with supervisory duties over a number of parishes.

The term is most often used in Eastern Orthodoxy and Eastern Catholic Churches and may be somewhat analogous to a monsignor in the Latin Church, but in the Eastern Churches an archpriest wears an additional vestment and, typically, a pectoral cross, and one becomes an archpriest via a liturgical ceremony.

Irinej (Irenaeus,; born 28 August 1930 in Vidova near Čačak, Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is the 45th Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Serbs, since 22 January 2010.

His full title is His Holiness the Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci, and Serbian Patriarch Irinej.

He served as the Bishop of Niš between 1975 and 2010.