§ 294. Certificate of incorporation. 1. A certificate of
incorporation for a church, society, or committee, to which this article
is applicable shall be executed and acknowledged by the trustees who
sign the resolution for incorporation.

The said certificate of incorporation shall contain the following:

(a) the name by which the proposed corporation shall be known.

(b) the number of trustees thereof; the names and addresses of the
persons elected as trustees; and the term of office for which they were
respectively elected.

(c) the name of county, town, city or village in which the principal
place of worship or office is or is intended to be located.

(d) the purpose and intent for which said corporation is created, to
be set forth as follows:

"The purpose and intent of this corporation is to maintain, propagate,
practice and forever perpetuate religious worship, services, sacraments
and teaching in full accordance and unity with the doctrine, ritual,
canon law, faith, practice, discipline, and traditions and usages of the
Orthodox Greek Catholic (Eastern Orthodox) Church; and for the carrying
out of said purpose and intent, to form and maintain a religious
organization or church adherent and obedient to the Orthodox
ecclesiastical jurisdiction and authority, and to the Orthodox hierarch,
bishop or administrator, selected by the members applying for
incorporation, and certified by the Orthodox Greek Catholic Primary
Jurisdictions in America, through the secretariat thereof, as canonical
and appropriate for the Orthodox communicant members comprising this
corporation."

(e) In the certificate of incorporation of societies or organizations,
other than parishes, special purposes, additional to the above, may be
set forth.

2. On filing such certificate in the office of the county clerk of the
county in which the place of worship or office of such corporation is or
is intended to be located, such church, society or committee shall be a
corporation by the name stated in the certificate and the persons
therein declared to be trustees of such corporation shall be trustees
until their successors are elected.