N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 105: Definitions

§ 105. Definitions. The "Orthodox Church in America", as that term is

used anywhere in this article, refers to that group of churches,

cathedrals, chapels, congregations, societies, parishes, committees and

other religious organizations of the Eastern Confession (Eastern

Orthodox or Greek Catholic Church) which were known as (a) Russian

American Mission of the Russian Orthodox Church from in or about

seventeen hundred ninety-three to in or about eighteen hundred seventy;

(b) Diocese of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands of the Russian Orthodox

Church from in or about eighteen hundred seventy to in or about nineteen

hundred four; (c) Diocese of North America and the Aleutian Islands (or

Alaska) of the Russian Orthodox Church from in or about nineteen hundred

four to in or about nineteen hundred twenty-four; (d) Russian Orthodox

Greek Catholic Church of North America (or America) from in or about

nineteen hundred twenty-four to October nineteen hundred seventy; and

(e) Orthodox Church in America since October nineteen hundred seventy;

and were subject to the administrative jurisdiction of the Most Sacred

Governing Synod in Moscow until in or about nineteen hundred seventeen,

later the Patriachate of Moscow, thereafter constituted an

administratively autonomous metropolitan district, but now constitute an

autocephalous church of the Eastern Confession (Eastern Orthodox or

Greek Catholic Church) by virtue of a proclamation of autocephaly made

on April tenth, nineteen hundred seventy by the Patriarch of Moscow and

All Russia and the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.

An "American Orthodox church", as that term is used anywhere in this

article, is a church, cathedral, chapel, congregation, society, parish,

committee or other religious organization founded and established for

the purpose and with the intent of adhering to, and being subject to the

administrative jurisdiction of said mission, diocese, autonomous

metropolitan district or autocephalous church hereinabove defined as the

Orthodox Church in America.