Editing Dušan Code (section)

==Background==

On 16 April 1346 ([[Easter]]), Dušan convoked a huge assembly at [[Skopje]], attended by the Serbian Archbishop [[Joanikije II]], the [[Archbishop of Ochrid]] [[Nikolaj I of Ochrid|Nikolaj I]], the [[Bulgarian Patriarchate|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 of Peć|Serbian Patriarchate]].<ref name=Fine309>{{harvnb|Fine|1994|p=309}}</ref> The Archbishop from then on was titled [[Serbian Patriarch]], although one document called him ''Patriarch of Serbs and Greeks'', with the seat at the [[Patriarchal Monastery of Peć|Monastery of Peć]].<ref name=Fine309/> The first [[List of heads of the Serbian Orthodox Church|Serbian Patriarch]] Joanikije II now solemnly crowned Dušan as "[[Emperor of Serbs|Emperor and autocrat of Serbs and Romans]]" ([[Greek language|Greek]] {{lang|grc|Bασιλεὺς καὶ αὐτoκράτωρ Σερβίας καὶ Pωμανίας}}).<ref name=Fine309/>