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Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia.
The Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia (Czech: Pravoslavná církev v Českých zemích a na Slovensku; Slovak: Pravoslávna cirkev v českých krajinách a na Slovensku), sometimes abbreviated OCCLS, is an autocephalousEastern Orthodox Church that territorially covers the countries of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The current primate of the Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church is Rastislav of Prešov (born Ondrej Gont), Metropolitan of the Czech Lands and Slovakia since 2014. The church has approximately 75,000 followers, of whom 50,000 live in Slovakia and 23,000 in the Czech Republic.