Section 336. Definitions  


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  • 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.