St. Vladimir’s Seminary is pleased to announce Tim Nieuwsma as its new Major Gifts Officer in the Office for Institutional Advancement. Tim joins the team at SVOTS after 30 years of experience in the business and non-profit world. Tim grew up as an “MK” (missionary kid) in the Philippines and...
St. Vladimir's Seminary is pleased to announce Dr. Peter Brown, Princeton University's Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History, Emeritus, as the presenter for the 30th [img_assist|nid=10504|title=|desc=St. Constantine the Great|link=none|align=right|width=200|height=257]Annual Father Alexander Schmemann Lecture. Titled "Constantine, Eusebius, and the Future of Christianity," the lecture will focus on how Christians approach the study of history. Just prior to the lecture, Dr. Brown will be awarded an Doctor of Divinity, honoris causa, by the Seminary's Board of Trustees and faculty.
[img_assist|nid=10506|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=200|height=133]For the second year in a row, the St. Vladimir's Seminary Alumni Association will sponsor a cookout, on the eve of the Feast of the Holy and Great Prince Vladimir, Saturday evening, July 14, 2012. Please join us for prayer and fellowship, beginning with Great Vespers at 6:30 p.m. and continuing with a cookout and picnic on the seminary's front lawn. Fellow alumni, faculty, staff, seminarians, and chapel friends (and families) are welcome. RSVP to Protodeacon Joseph Matusiak, Director of Admissions, Financial Aid, and Alumni Relations, at x328 or e-mail: jmatusiak@svots.edu. For further questions, also please contact Pdn. Joseph.
View the new SVS Press and Bookstore Website here ! St. Vladimir’s Seminary’s academic press and bookshop are sporting a fresh face on the World Wide Web. With the launch of their new Website, SVS Press and Bookstore aim to provide retail customers with a simple, intuitive online shopping experience...
Archpriest Alexander Rentel, assistant professor of Canon Law and Byzantine Studies at St. Vladimir's, participated in the Fourth International Congress of the Society of Oriental Liturgy. The congress took place at Notre Dame University, Louaize Zouk Mosbeh, near Beirut, Lebanon. During the congress a group of forty international scholars, teachers...
His Holiness Abune Paulos, who was Patriarch and Catholicos of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Archbishop of Axum and Ichege of the See of St. Teklehaimanot, fell asleep in the Lord in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, early this morning, according to a BBC report. Other news sources, including " The...
The Rev. Joel McEachen (SVOTS ’68) has been elected president of the 172 member Retired Clergy Association (RCA) of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (GOA). The election took place at the biennial general meeting of the RCA held in conjunction with the 2012 Clergy–Laity Congress in Phoenix, AZ, in...
Whenever someone speaks of “American Orthodoxy,” there is usually an unspoken understanding that the term refers to North American Orthodoxy: the United States, Canada, and sometimes Mexico. This way of speaking is indeed convenient, considering that the majority of Orthodox parishes in the Western Hemisphere are still located in North...
St. Vladimir’s Seminary welcomes the members of the Class of 2015! Over the course of eleven hectic days, new and returning students and their families: participated in a full schedule of services, registered for classes, auditioned for choir, picked up ID cards, congregated for cookouts, attended the first gathering for...
Summer is a busy season for the campus maintenance department. Plant Manager Rafael Rivera and his two assistants, Ramon Contreras and Yuri Shcherbakov, completed a number of major projects on the Seminary's 12 scenic acres. Two part-time summer student employees and several outside contractors assisted in the renovations, enabling the...