N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 336: Definitions

§ 336. Definitions. 1. The "Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church

in America," as that term is used anywhere in this article, refers to

the churches, cathedrals, chapels, congregations, societies, parishes,

committees and other religious organizations of the Eastern Orthodox

Church which are subject to ecclesiastical and administrative

jurisdiction and authority of the archbishop, or bishop, who is the

ecclesiastical administrator of the American diocese of the Byelorussian

Autocephalic Orthodox Church created pursuant to resolutions adopted at

a diocesan convention (sobor) of said diocese held at Brooklyn, New

York, on May twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred sixty and

subject to the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the metropolitan

archbishop, or other primate, or the locum tenens acting in his place

and the council of bishops of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox

Church.

2. Every church, parish, congregation, society, or committee

incorporated or reincorporated, pursuant to this article, shall in all

respects conform to, maintain, and follow the faith, doctrine, ritual,

communion, discipline, canon law, traditions and usages of the Eastern

Orthodox Church as such are determined by the governing ecclesiastical

body of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church, and shall

recognize and be and remain subject to the jurisdiction and authority of

the duly appointed archbishop, bishop or other administrator of the

American Diocese of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church,

hereinafter called Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America,

or his successor in office, and shall accept, secure or receive the

sacramental, pastoral, or ministerial services of such clergy only as

are so certified to be of lawful and canonical status or authority in

the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America, and retain or

secure as pastors only such clergy as have, in addition, the permission

of the said archbishop, bishop, or administrator of the Byelorussian

Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America.