§ 336. Definitions. 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.