§ 105. Definitions. The "Orthodox Church in America", as that term is
used anywhere in this article, refers to that group of churches,
cathedrals, chapels, congregations, societies, parishes, committees and
other religious organizations of the Eastern Confession (Eastern
Orthodox or Greek Catholic Church) which were known as (a) Russian
American Mission of the Russian Orthodox Church from in or about
seventeen hundred ninety-three to in or about eighteen hundred seventy;
(b) Diocese of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands of the Russian Orthodox
Church from in or about eighteen hundred seventy to in or about nineteen
hundred four; (c) Diocese of North America and the Aleutian Islands (or
Alaska) of the Russian Orthodox Church from in or about nineteen hundred
four to in or about nineteen hundred twenty-four; (d) Russian Orthodox
Greek Catholic Church of North America (or America) from in or about
nineteen hundred twenty-four to October nineteen hundred seventy; and
(e) Orthodox Church in America since October nineteen hundred seventy;
and were subject to the administrative jurisdiction of the Most Sacred
Governing Synod in Moscow until in or about nineteen hundred seventeen,
later the Patriachate of Moscow, thereafter constituted an
administratively autonomous metropolitan district, but now constitute an
autocephalous church of the Eastern Confession (Eastern Orthodox or
Greek Catholic Church) by virtue of a proclamation of autocephaly made
on April tenth, nineteen hundred seventy by the Patriarch of Moscow and
All Russia and the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.

An "American Orthodox church", as that term is used anywhere in this
article, is a church, cathedral, chapel, congregation, society, parish,
committee or other religious organization founded and established for
the purpose and with the intent of adhering to, and being subject to the
administrative jurisdiction of said mission, diocese, autonomous
metropolitan district or autocephalous church hereinabove defined as the
Orthodox Church in America.