Several state nonprofit corporation laws specify that board members are personally liable for approving a transaction that violates a board member's fiduciary duty of loyalty.

Directors of nonprofit corporations also have a fiduciary duty of loyalty to the corporation.

In most cases, a director breaches the duty of loyalty only through some secret or undisclosed interest in a transaction with the corporation.

Under these circumstances, the pastor likely has violated the fiduciary duty of loyalty by usurping a corporate opportunity.

In such a case, the duty of loyalty may be violated.