
The Archive of the Hellenic Institute (1498-1955) has great importance for the history of the Confraternity, providing a wealth of information on the social and economic life of Greeks in Venice, on their art, their education and on their ecclesiastical history.
The most important registers are the lists of members, the
minutes of meetings (
Capitolari), the registers of
baptisms, births, marriages and deaths, the inventaries, the
account books and commercial records, the Confraternity’s
constitution (
Mariegola), and the register of wills
and donations.
The archive contains documentation on the administration of
the Confraternity's capital, on religious issues (the chancery
of the Orthodox Archbishops of Philadelphia), the fabric of
the church of St. George, the convent, the hospital and the
Flanghinis College.
Also preserved in the Institute are some Papal bulls of the
15th and 16th centuries, documents on parchment from Venetian
doges (16th-18th centuries), and letters from the Patriarchs
of Constantinople, Jerusalem and Alexandria to the Archbishops
of Philadelphia (16th-19th centuries).