2016 New York Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 15 - (Religious Corporations)
291 - Application for incorporation.

  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.