on april 16, 1346 (easter), stephen uroš iv dušan of serbia convoked a huge assembly at skopje, attended by the serbian archbishop joanikije ii, the archbishop of ochrid nikolaj i, the bulgarian patriarch simeon and various religious leaders of mount athos. the assembly and clerics agreed on, and then ceremonially performed the raising of the autocephalous serbian archbishopric to the status of serbian patriarchate. the archbishop from now on is titled serbian patriarch, although some documents called him "patriarch of serbs and greeks", with the seat at the patriarchal monastery of peć. the first serbian patriarch joanikije ii now solemnly crowned dušan as "emperor and autocrat of serbs and romans" (greek ).