Page 2 of a multi-signatory church declaration on the letterhead of “The Truth” Greek Bi-Weekly Newspaper, 344 West 27th Street, New York, dated December 1933, “3 PM.” The page carries a clustered set of signatures from at least eight Greek Orthodox clergy in New York — archimandrites, archpriests, and reverends. Legible names include Rev. T. Stylne, Rev. Antonios Vasiliadis, Rev. K. Pagkronti, and several others.
The page is part of the 1933 Bronx-parish schism — the bitter eight-month fight between the canonical Saint Constantine Greek Orthodox Community of the Bronx (Lazaros’s parish) and a rival, anti-Athenagoras parish — that culminated on December 11, 1933 in the Palm Garden NYC rally where attendees voted to reject Archbishop Athenagoras. Aletheia (literally “The Truth”) was the principal Greek-American newspaper carrying the dissident-faction position.
This page sits among Lazaros’s papers because he was a New York organizing-committee member of that rally. The eight-priest signature block is the kind of credentialing document the canonical faction was circulating to rebut the rival parish’s legitimacy — assembling a public list of “the canonical priests of New York and Long Island” while the rival side worked to keep it out of the friendlier newspapers.
Athenagoras would go on to become Ecumenical Patriarch in 1948. The dissident-faction position Lazaros backed lost in the long run; the documents survived in his files anyway.