New York Consolidated Laws, Religious Corporations Law - RCO § 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.