§ 295. Government: powers and duties of trustees. 1. Every church,
parish, congregation, society, or committee incorporated or
re-incorporated, pursuant to this article, shall recognize and be and
remain subject to the jurisdiction and authority of the duly appointed
and canonical hierarch, bishop or other administrator, certified through
the secretariat of the Federated Orthodox Greek Catholic Primary
Jurisdictions in America, as appropriate for its members, or his
successor in office whose authority is likewise certified; 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 Orthodox Greek Catholic (Eastern Orthodox)
Church; and shall retain or secure as pastors only such clergy as have,
in addition, the permission of the hierarch, bishop or administrator
certified to be appropriate; and shall in all other respects conform to,
maintain, and follow the faith, doctrine, ritual, communion, discipline,
canon law, traditions and usages of the Orthodox Greek Catholic (Eastern
Orthodox) Church.

2. Any action of the trustees or parish committees regarding the
calling, appointment, removal or compensation of parish clergy shall be
subject to approval, in writing, by the appropriate bishop or
administrator exercising jurisdiction.

3. The trustees of every such incorporated or re-incorporated church,
society or committee shall have the custody and control of all the
temporalities and property, real and personal, belonging to the
corporation, and of all the revenues therefrom; and shall administer the
same strictly in accordance with the by-laws of the corporation and the
rules, regulations and usages of the orthodox jurisdiction or
ecclesiastical governing body to which such church, society or committee
is subject.

4. The number of first trustees shall be a multiple of three;
one-third of such first trustees to hold office for three years;
one-third thereof to hold office for two years; and one-third thereof to
hold office for one year from the first election following the
incorporation; and thereafter at each annual election there shall be
elected for a term of three years one-third of the number of trustees.