15 - Corporations With Governing Authority Over, or Advisory Relations With, Churches or Synods, or Both.

NY Rel Corps L § 15 (2019) (N/A)
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(a) to the jurisdiction of the Orthodox Oecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople exercised in the Americas and all the territorial possessions and/or dependencies or protectorates of the United States of America, by its duly authorized exarch, metropolitan, archbishop or bishop,

(b) to the jurisdiction of the apostolic Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch, exercised in the Americas and all the territorial possessions and/or dependencies or protectorates of the United States of America, by its duly authorized exarch, metropolitan, archbishop or bishop,

(c) to the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Moscow exercised in the Americas and all the territorial possessions and/or dependencies or protectorates of the United States of America, by its duly authorized exarch, metropolitan, archbishop or bishop,

(d) to the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Serbia (Jugoslavia) exercised in the Americas and all the territorial possessions and/or dependencies or protectorates of the United States of America, by its duly authorized exarch, metropolitan, archbishop or bishop. All other Orthodox Greek Catholic jurisdictions, bishoprics, dioceses and missions, officially and canonically in communion with and acknowledged by all four of said primary jurisdictions, if certified by the secretariat thereof as affiliated with the Federated Orthodox Greek Catholic Primary Jurisdictions in America, may incorporate or re-incorporate under this section as affiliates thereof. 4. The trustees of every incorporated governing body of the four primary jurisdictions, respectively, specified in subdivision three of this section, or of any of the affiliates of said jurisdictions, shall consist of the hierarch or ecclesiastical administrator, who shall be ex-officio president of the corporation, the chancellor of the archdiocese, the dean of the archdiocesan theological faculty or one of the members thereof, and the secretary of the archdiocese, who are to be appointed by said hierarch and to serve at his pleasure and, in addition, not less than three nor more than nine other persons, communicants of the Orthodox Church, to be elected by said governing body or by the diocesan convention; the term of such elective first trustees shall be one-third for one year, one-third for two years, and one-third for three years, respectively, and the term of office of their successors shall be three years. 5. The trustees of every incorporated governing body of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America shall consist of not less than three nor more than thirty persons. If the constitution or by-laws of such governing body so provides, the Bishop or president, vice-president, treasurer and secretary of such governing body shall be ex-officio trustees of such governing body. The remaining trustees shall be elected by the annual or other regular convention of such governing body if it does not meet annually, and shall hold their office for such term as shall be decided by the said convention. Vacancies in the board of trustees, occurring by reason of death, resignation or other cause, may be filled by the remaining trustees as provided in the constitution and by-laws of such governing body.