Section 290. Application of article  


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  • 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.