Who is the boss of scientology?
Religious Technology Center (RTC) is a nonprofit religious
organization formed in 1982 to preserve, maintain and protect the
Scientology religion and is a Church of the Scientology
religion.
Religious Technology Center holds the ultimate ecclesiastical
authority regarding the standard and pure application of L. Ron
Hubbard's religious technologies. RTC is not part of the management
structure of the Church and is not involved in its day-to-day
affairs.
RTC holds the Dianetics and Scientology trademarks and service
marks, which Founder L. Ron Hubbard donated to RTC in 1982.
Earlier, Mr. Hubbard himself oversaw the practice of the religion
and registered as trade and service marks many of the religion's
identifying words and symbols, such as "Dianetics" and
"Scientology."
These registered marks provided a legal mechanism for ensuring
that Scientology religious technologies are ministered in exact
accordance with the scripture and not altered by misappropriation
or improper use. They also provide a legal mechanism to prevent
anyone from offering some altered or inauthentic version of
Dianetics and Scientology and representing it as the real
technology.
RTC grants the Church of Scientology International (CSI), the
mother church of the Scientology religion, the right to use the
trademarks and to license their use to all other Scientology
Churches.
While CSI serves as the mother church and is responsible for the
overall ecclesiastical management, dissemination, propagation and
defense of the Scientology religion and the various Scientology
Churches, Religious Technology Center serves as the ultimate
protector of the religion. While each Scientology organization and,
indeed, every Scientologist is expected to enforce the standard
application of Scientology scripture, RTC is the final arbiter of
orthodoxy.
Mr. David Miscavige is the Chairman of the Board, RTC.