His Grace the Right Reverend Irinej (Dobrijevic), a graduate of both St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary and St Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary, was recently elected to serve as bishop of the Eastern American Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Currently, His Grace is bishop of the Metropolitanate of Australia and New Zealand, a diocese that, like the diocese to which he is newly elected, is under the authority of the Serbian Orthodox Patriarchate.