54-a. Rector; vicar; ministers; their appointment, removal and compensation. The rector or vicar or other ministers of any such church, by whatever title they are called in ecclesiastical language, shall be called, settled or removed and their salaries fixed, only by the vote of a majority of the members of such corporation duly qualified to vote at elections present and voting at a meeting of such corporation specifically called for that purpose, subject to the consent of the ecclesiastical administrator of Patriarchal Synod, given in writing. A rector or vicar or other minister so called, with the sanction of the archbishop in writing, shall be deemed settled definitely in such church, when he has accepted such call in writing. Unless there is sufficient cause to terminate the relationship of such clergyman and such church such relationship shall be deemed permanent and governed entirely by the rules and usages of the American Patriarchal Orthodox Church, subject to the patriarch.
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