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MALANKARA ARCHDIOCESE OF SYRIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IN NORTH AMERICA v. THOMAS

33 A.D.3d 887 (2006)

824 N.Y.S.2d 101

MALANKARA ARCHDIOCESE OF SYRIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IN NORTH AMERICA et al., Respondents, v. MATHEW THOMAS et al., Appellants. BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF ST. MARY'S MALANKARA SYRIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH OF ROCKLAND et al., Nonparty-Appellants.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

Decided October 24, 2006.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.

At issue here is ownership of certain property held in the name of St. Mary's Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church of Rockland (hereinafter St. Mary's). St. Mary's constitution states that St. Mary's was under the spiritual direction of the Syrian Orthodox Church and could "not be amalgamated with any other Church or religious group" without the consent of the Patriarch of the Syrian Orthodox Church (hereinafter the Patriarch...

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