§ 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.