Okla. Stat. tit. 18, § 18-563: Title vests in successors in trust

All grants or deeds from private individuals, or acts of

legislative bodies, transferring, conveying or granting real estate

in this state to any bishop, dean, rector, vestryman, deacon,

director, minister or any other officer or officers of any church or

organized religious society in trust for the use and benefit of such

society of which they are such officer or officers, which have been

or may be made, done or executed, shall vest in their successor or

successors in office, or other officer which such society may at any

time designate, all the legal or other title, to the same extent and

in all respects the same, as trustee of such trust, for the use and

benefit of such society, which such bishop, dean, rector, vestryman,

deacon, director, minister or other officer or officers, had under

such grant, deed or act; and all transfers or sales made by such

officer or officers so acquiring title by virtue of this article, by

succession in office shall have all the validity, force and effect

that it would have had had it been made by such bishop, dean,

rector, vestryman, deacon, director, minister or other officer or

officers, while holding under and by virtue of such grant, deed or

act of such legislative body.