Greek Archdiocese letter dated July 15, 1932, to the administrative council of the Greek Orthodox Church of Saints Constantine and Helen, Bronx, announcing a clergy appointment:
“We inform you that we have appointed as provisional Priest of your Church the Most Reverend Mr. Michael Andreadis, Archpriest (Πρωθιερέας), and we ask you to support him and cooperate with him for the more orderly execution of his exalted duties.”
Signed by Archimandrite Athinagoras as Protosynkellos (Chief Vicar) of the Archdiocese, with the Archdiocese seal. The title Πρωθιερέας (Archpriest) is an honorific clerical rank in the Greek Orthodox Church, given to senior parish priests with substantial pastoral experience — a sign the Archdiocese was treating the Bronx assignment as a significant pastoral appointment, not a stopgap.
Father Andreadis was the priest serving the Saints Constantine and Helen Bronx parish through the eighteen months that followed — including the October 1932 building acquisition, the 1933 Sidirokanellis-Justice Department escalation, the August 1933 Archdiocese press strategy correspondence, the September 1933 formal canonical recognition, and the December 11, 1933 Palm Garden anti-Athenagoras rally where the dissident-faction Greek-Americans of New York voted to reject Archbishop Athenagoras’s leadership.