§ 291. Application for incorporation. An unincorporated congregation,
church, parish or society may apply to the appropriate hierarch, bishop
or administrator for permission to incorporate under this article.

When such permission or sanction for incorporation has been given, in
writing, over the seal and signature of the appropriate hierarch, bishop
or administrator and has been certified by the secretariat of the
Federated Orthodox Greek Catholic Primary Jurisdictions in America, it
shall be attached to a certificate of incorporation; and said
certificate shall be executed, acknowledged and filed, as hereinafter
provided, and thereupon such congregation, parish, church, society or
committee shall become a corporation under this article.