Governing document GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH OF ST BASIL & ST PAISIOS IN LINCOLN
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CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 22 OCT 1964
AS AMENDED ON 02 AUG 2017
Charitable objects
(I) TO PRESERVE AND PROPAGATE THE CHRISTIAN ORTHODOX FAITH AND TRADITIONS AS CONTAIN IN HOLY SCRIPTURE AS PRACTICED IN THE LIFE OF THE CHURCH, AS CONFIRMED BY THE ECUMENICAL AND LOCAL COUNCILS AND AS INTERPRETED, PRESERVED AND TAUGHT BY THE GREAT CHURCH OF CHRIST, THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE OF CONSTANTINOPLE.
(II) TO PRESERVE THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT IN DIVINE WORSHIP AND IN THE ECCLESIASTICAL LIFE OF THE FAITHFUL AND TO MINSTER TO THE PEOPLE THROUGH CANONICAL SERVICES CONDUCTED ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF THE GREAT CHURCH OF CONSTANTINOPLE BY CANONICAL PRIESTS, AND THROUGH SERMONS AND THROUGH CATECHISM AND GREEK LANGUAGE SCHOOLS.
(III) TO ESTABLISH A CHURCH FOR THE WORSHIP OF THE TRIUNE GOD AND A SCHOOL FOR THE PURPOSE OF TEACHING THE GREEK LANGUAGE TO CHILDREN AND ADULTS.
(IV) TO RECEIVE INTO THE ORTHODOX FAITH, BY BAPTISM OR CHRISMATION, ALL THOSE WHO FREELY DECIDE AND SINCERELY DESIRE TO ADOPT THE ORTHODOX FAITH, AND TO LIVE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ITS SPIRITUAL AND MORAL TEACHING.
(V) TO UNDERTAKE PHILANTHROPIC WORK FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE WHO NEED PROTECTION, ASSISTANCE AND MEDICAL CARE, TO PROVIDE FOR THE WELFARE OF THE POOR AND FOR THE BURIAL OF THOSE GREEKS WHO PASS AWAY WITHOUT FINANCIAL MEANS.
