Blaudziunas v. Egan

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Louis B. York, J.), entered November 24, 2008, which denied plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction seeking to enjoin defendants from *698demolishing a church building and granted defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint, affirmed, without costs.

Within the hierarchical Roman Catholic Church, the decision to demolish the church building of the subject suppressed incorporated parish, duly made by the Archbishop and the trustees of the parish in accordance with applicable canon law and church bylaws, was ecclesiastical in nature. We adhere “to the…