But the Greek Holy Synod reflected on information provided by the Archimandrite Germain Kazakis, head of the Orthodox settlement of Calcutta, in addition to the parishioners' application in which they declared themselves Orthodox but still held Roman Catholic liturgies, sacraments, and devotions. According to Smit, "presumably seeing an analogy between the respective emergences of the two churches," Stephen Silva, the secretary, complained to Gregorio Aglipay of the Philippine Independent Church in 1903 that the "cannot get sufficient priests to work independently of Rome." Bartas wrote, in 1904 that the Greek Holy Synod "will undoubtedly continue to defer its response" under these conditions. Smit mentioned that the also failed to create "a relationship with the Greek Orthodox Church in the 1910s." In 1913, Adrian Fortescue described Alvares' faction, in "The Lesser Eastern Churches", as "chiefly famous for the begging letters they write and the doubt they cause to people who receive these letters as to who exactly they may be."