N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 291: Application for incorporation

§ 291. Application for incorporation. An unincorporated congregation,

church, parish or society may apply to the appropriate hierarch, bishop

or administrator for permission to incorporate under this article.

When such permission or sanction for incorporation has been given, in

writing, over the seal and signature of the appropriate hierarch, bishop

or administrator and has been certified by the secretariat of the

Federated Orthodox Greek Catholic Primary Jurisdictions in America, it

shall be attached to a certificate of incorporation; and said

certificate shall be executed, acknowledged and filed, as hereinafter

provided, and thereupon such congregation, parish, church, society or

committee shall become a corporation under this article.