2006 Minnesota Code
Chapters 300 - 319B Corporations
Chapter 315 Religious Associations
Section 315.20 CATHEDRALS.

315.20 CATHEDRALS.
Subdivision 1. Formation. A cathedral for which a constitution and statutes are adopted
by the diocesan convention of a diocese in this state of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the
United States of America may form a corporation, as follows:
The cathedral shall have a certificate prepared containing:
(1) the name and location of the cathedral;
(2) the persons who constitute the chapter of the cathedral, and their names, of which chapter
the bishop of the diocese and the wardens and vestry members of the cathedral congregation
shall be members; and
(3) the date of the adoption by the diocesan convention of the constitution and statutes
of the cathedral.
Subd. 2. Certificate, by whom signed. The certificate must be signed and acknowledged by
the bishop of the diocese and by a majority of the members of the chapter, and recorded with the
county recorder of the county where the cathedral is located.
Subd. 3. Certificate filed; powers. Upon the signing, acknowledging, and recording of
the certificate with the county recorder of the county of its location, the cathedral becomes a
corporation under the name in its certificate. Through its chapter, it may transact the business of
the cathedral. In its corporate name, it may acquire or receive, by purchase, gift, grant, devise, or
bequest, any property, real, personal, or mixed, and hold, sell, transfer, mortgage, convey, loan,
let, or otherwise use the property for the use and benefit of the cathedral if the use does not
contravene the laws and usages of the Protestant Episcopal church in the United States of America
of this state. It may not divert any gift, grant, or bequest from the purpose specified in writing
by the donor or devisor. It may not sell, convey, or mortgage its church or church site, except
with the consent of the bishop, in writing, and when first authorized to do so at a meeting of the
chapter called for that purpose, nor in contravention of the canons of the diocese or of the general
convention of the Protestant Episcopal church in the United States of America.
Subd. 4. Government. The chapter of the cathedral shall be governed by the constitution
and statutes which have been adopted for it by the diocesan convention and any amendments to
them as provided in them.
History: (7982, 7983, 7984) 1915 c 46 s 1-3; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1984 c 618 s 25,26; 1985 c
265 art 5 s 1; 2005 c 4 s 49,50