How will parishes be incorporated?
Incorporation in Arizona is a relatively simple process. Articles of incorporation are filed with the Arizona Corporation Commission and then published. Each parish corporation will then hold an organizational meeting, at which the board of directors will adopt bylaws regulating the governance of the corporation and sign corporate resolutions adopting various policies and programs recommended by the Diocese. The articles of incorporation and bylaws will be drafted by the Diocese’s Legal Department, and will be identical in form for all parishes. The initial articles of incorporation will be filed by the Diocese in July of 2008, and the original organizational board meetings will be held at the Diocesan Pastoral Center in mid-September of 2008. 8. Will there be a corporate board of directors? Will laity be involved? Each parish corporation will have a Board of Directors consisting of five persons: the Bishop, the Vicar General/Moderator of the Diocesan Curia, the Pastor and two parish r
