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| | Jurisdictions |
 | | Each is self-governing or "autocephalous" and is governed by its own senior bishop known as a "patriarch" or "metropolitan" archbishop. |
 | | Today the Orthodox Church is comprised of four of these ancient patriarchates (excluding Rome), along with the "autocephalous" churches of Jerusalem, Russia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Georgia, Cyprus, Greece, Poland, Albania and America and the "autonomous" churches in the Czech and Slovak Republic, Sinai, Crete, Finland, Japan, China and Ukraine. |
 | | The church was administratively divided into two metropolitan provinces, one with headquarters in Prague in the Czech Republic, and the other based in Slovakia. |
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