N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 290: Application of article

§ 290. Application of article. 1. This article applies to all

churches, congregations, societies, parishes, committees and other local

organizations governed by jurisdictions, bishoprics, dioceses, missions

of any Orthodox Patriarchate, Synod or national church of the Orthodox

Greek Catholic (Eastern Orthodox) Church, recognized by the apostolic

historic Orthodox Patriarchates of Constantinople, Antioch, Moscow and

Serbia (Jugoslavia), respectively, through their four primary Orthodox

Greek Catholic jurisdictions in America as specified in subdivisions

three and four of section fifteen of this chapter; also to any churches,

parishes, congregations, societies or committees of the Christian

Orthodox Catholic Churches of the Eastern Confession which are included

under article five-a of said chapter and in general to all churches,

parishes, congregations, committees or religious organizations founded

or established with the intent and for the purpose of adhering to and

maintaining the apostolic and historic communion, doctrine, discipline,

canon law, tradition, worship and unity of the Eastern Confession known

as the Orthodox Greek Catholic (Eastern Orthodox) Church.

2. This article does not apply to the following churches, which are

autogenic, to wit: American Catholic Church, Old Catholic Church,

Western Orthodox Church, Orthodox Old Catholic Church, American Catholic

Orthodox Church, Apostolic Episcopal Church, Holy Orthodox Church in

America, American Patriarchal Orthodox Church, African Orthodox Church

or any other organization, church, society or establishment by whatever

name, title or description designated, whose names, titles or

descriptions allude, relate or refer to the said Orthodox Greek Catholic

(Eastern Orthodox) Church but which are not recognized or accepted by

said apostolic and historic Orthodox Greek Catholic Patriarchates.