Minutes of the General Assembly of the parish members, on the parish’s own letterhead:
ΗΝΩΜΕΝΗ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΟΣ ΚΟΙΝΟΤΗΣ — “ΑΓΙΟΙ ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΕΛΕΝΗ” — 809 WESTCHESTER AVE.
UNITED HELLENIC ORTHODOX COMMUNITY — “SAINT CONSTANTINE AND HELEN” — 809 WESTCHESTER AVE.
Telephone: LUdlow 4-6783
The document is the institutional turning point of the early-1930s Bronx parish thread. The merger that the Archdiocese had pushed in January 1932 (and the further consolidation work in June and July) had succeeded by October — the parish was now formally the United Hellenic Orthodox Community Saints Constantine and Helen, operating from 809 Westchester Avenue, Bronx, the address that would become the focal point of the 1933 disputes.
The Assembly met on October 24, 1932 at the hall at 986 Forest Avenue, Bronx. Two unanimous resolutions:
- A “beautiful” building had been identified as suitable for the new parish church and its schools.
- A five-member Building Acquisition Committee was empowered with full authority to negotiate the purchase or rental of the building and to manage the necessary repairs. The committee:
- Kleanthis Zonaras (the parish President)
- Archimandrite Graiforos (clergy member)
- Konstantinos Xyladarros
- Vasilios Kefaleanos
- Anastasios Dangitsis
The minutes are signed at the bottom by the elected officers — President Kleanthis Zonaras, Secretary Dim. Maros, Treasurer W. Ionas / J. Kazogiris, plus a vice-president whose handwriting is hard to read — and a dense block of 12+ parish-member signatures. Lazaros’s signature may well be among them; close identification at this scan resolution is difficult.
The combination of a freshly-merged parish entity, a leadership team in place, and an active building acquisition explains why the 1933 schism was as consequential as it became: the rival, dissident parish was contesting control of a substantial, just-organized, just-housed institution — not a paper organization but a community with a building, schools, an Archpriest, and a member roll.