View Father Chad Hatfield’s speech (39:06) and Q&A responses (1:14:37) on C-span: click on the Video Playlist "Conference on Religious Freedom: Session 3 Uniting to Preserve Robust Freedom," in the right-hand column, here. This Thursday, Archpriest Chad Hatfield, seminary Chancellor and CEO, participated in the 2012 National Religious Freedom Conference...

On May 24-27, 2012, Professor Paul Meyendorff, The Father Alexander Schmemann Professor of Liturgical Theology at St. Vladimir's, attended a conference with the theme "Ecclesiology and Nationalism in Post-Modern Era" at the Volos Academy for Theological Studies in Volos, Greece. Dr. Meyendorff presented a paper entitled "Ethnophyletism, Autocephaly, and National...

In early June, a mission team from the seminary community, led by Chancellor/CEO Archpriest Chad Hatfield, visited Guatemala to lend much-needed hands to Hogar Rafael Ayau Orphanage. The team assisted in moving the orphanage from "Zone 1," a crime-ridden and dangerous area of Guatemala City, to Hogar San Miguel, a...

The atmosphere surrounding the recent "Becoming a Healing Presence" workshop was "engaging, honest, direct, and challenging," said workshop leader, Dr. Albert S. Rossi, adjunct professor of Pastoral Theology at St. Vladimir's Seminary. "The expressed interest in this topic seemed to be electrifying, almost contagious," Dr. Rossi continued. "It was sheer...

Nearly thirty deacons and Diaconal Vocations Program students immersed themselves in worship, theological learning, spiritual reflection, and liturgical practice during the Sixth Annual Diaconal Liturgical Practicum, held on the campus of St. Vladimir’s from June 10–13, 2012. Archdeacon Kirill Sokolov, director of Diaconal and Late Vocations for the Orthodox Church...

His Eminence was born 1933 in Alagonia, Kalamata, and was a graduate in theology, and in classical literature-philosophy from the University of Athens. He was chosen and ordained Metropolitan of Nikopolis and Preveza in 1980, having been ordained both deacon and priest by the Metropolitan of Messenia, His Eminence Chrysostom...

"It was spiritually uplifting to be here on St. Vladimir's Seminary's campus once more," said Protodeacon Nazari Polataiko, as he completed leading the final session of a 5-day iconography workshop. "The environment, the setting in a place of regular prayer, and the opportunity to work with a group of Orthodox...

Mr. Boyd grew up in the faith as a member of Holy Transfiguration Church in New Haven, Connecticut, and in St. Alexis Church, in Clinton, Connecticut. He was an active member of his local chapter of the Orthodox Christian Fellowship (OCF) when he was a student at the University of...

On Tuesday morning, June 26th, Dr. Veselin Kesich , who was Professor of New Testament emeritus at St. Vladimir's Seminary, reposed in the Lord. Professor Kesich, after suffering from a heart ailment for many years, passed away surrounded by his children, Gregory and Carol, at his apartment in Scarborough, Maine...

St. Vladimir’s Seminary’s summer workshops concluded with an extraordinary Master Class in church choral conducting and singing, taught by Vladimir Aleksandrovich Gorbik, one of the leading practitioners of sacred choral music in Russia today. During the last week in June, 43 participants, mostly from the United States, trained under the...