290 - Application of article. - New York Statutes

§ 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.