Kedrovsky v. Archbishop & Consistory of the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church

The corporation known as the Archbishop and Consistory did not hold the legal title to the lands in controversy. It did not succeed to any title belonging to the unincorporated association known as the Archbishop and Consistory, for the reason that the latter association had no title to succeed to. The title was either in Archbishop Nemolovsky for the benefit of the faithful of the church within his diocese, or in the defendants to whom he attempted to transfer his trusts (whether successfully or not. we do not now decide), or in the faithful of the church themselves. In none of these views…