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His Grace, [[ArchimandriteBishop]] '''Irenee (Rochon)''' is the [[bishop]] of Quebec City, is an [[auxiliary bishop]] to His Eminence Archbishop [[Seraphim (Storheim) of Ottawa]] and Canada of the [[Orthodox Church in America]].
==Life==
His first introduction to Orthodox Christianity was through a Russian Orthodox Church in Rawdon, Quebec in 1961. On [[January 20]], 1967, he was received into the Orthodox Church by [[Archbishop]] [[Vitaly (Ustinov) of New York|Vitaly]] of the [[Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia]]. While active in the [[parish]] life of St. Nicholas [[Cathedral]] in Montreal, the future [[archimandrite]] participated in the activities of the [[Orthodox Christian Fellowship]] group at McGill University.
