AMERICAN CARPATHO-RUSSIAN ORTHODOX GREEK CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF U.S.A. v. CHURCH BD.


749 A.2d 1003 (2000)

THE AMERICAN CARPATHO—RUSSIAN ORTHODOX GREEK CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF THE U.S.A., by Metropolitan NICHOLAS, and Robert Salley, Appellants, v. THE CHURCH BOARD OF ST. MICHAEL'S ORTHODOX—GREEK CATHOLIC CHURCH OF CLYMER, Fred Julock, Edward Gaydosh, Denise Rusko, Eleanor Berezansky, John Berezansky, Fred Sebastian, Barbara Sebastian, Donna Kuzemchak, Patricia Tatarko, Fred Knapik, Kathy Amick, Helen Gaydosh, Daniel Kapcoe, Michael Gaydosh and William Gaydosh Dan Kapcoe, Marcie Hanna and Robert Salley, individually and on behalf of St. Michael's Orthodox—Greek Catholic Church of Clymer, Appellants, v. The Church Board of St. Michael's Orthodox—Greek Catholic Church of Clymer, Fred Julock, Edward Gaydosh, Denise Rusko, Eleanor Berezansky, John Berezansky, Fred Sebastian, Barbara Sebastian, Donna Kuzemchak, Patricia Tatarko, Fred Knapik, Kathy Amick, Helen Gaydosh, Michael Gaydosh, and William Gaydosh.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided March 1, 2000.

Reargument and/or Reconsideration Denied May 10, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael N. Vaporis, Indiana, for appellants.

Gene E. Goldenziel, Scranton, and Thomas M. Bianco, Indiana, for appellees.

Before McGINLEY, J., PELLEGRINI, J., and RODGERS, Senior Judge.


PELLEGRINI, Judge.

The American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Diocese of the U.S.A., by Metropolitan Nicholas and Father Robert Salley (collectively, Diocese) and Dan Kapcoe, Marcie Hanna and Robert Salley, individually and on behalf of St. Michael's Orthodox-Greek Catholic Church of Clymer (St.Michael's), appeal from orders of the Court of Common Pleas of Indiana County (trial court) determining that St. Michael's is congregational in nature and ordering...

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