Richard Schneider (1938–2022) fell asleep in the Lord on the evening of November 11. Professor Schneider enjoyed a long teaching career, including two decades spent at St Vladimir’s Seminary as Professor of Hermeneutics and Liturgical Art. He was initially invited in 1995 by Fr Thomas Hopko to lecture on iconology...

Richard Okello* (M.Div. ‘25) traveled to Yonkers, NY this summer from his hometown of Gulu in Northern Uganda, to take the next step in his longstanding commitment to service in the Church - becoming a seminarian at St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary. Richard’s family and community are eagerly awaiting his...

On Sunday, November 13, 2022, at the 10th Anniversary celebration honoring the election of Metropolitan Tikhon as the Primate of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), St Vladimir’s Seminary senior faculty member, Dr Al Rossi , was honored for his lifetime of service with the St Innocent Medal (Silver Class)...

At its recent Regular Fall 2022 Session, the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America, meeting under the presidency of His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon , received the Albanian Archdiocesan nomination of Igumen Nikodhim (M.Div.’07) as diocesan bishop, made earlier this fall. The Holy Synod decided to elevate...

St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) has welcomed women students since the early 1960’s, and its female alumni have gone on to be chaplains, professors, teachers, counselors, missionaries, choir directors, writers, scholars, and lay ministers in the Orthodox Church. No student body in the past, however, has been joined by...

St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) has welcomed women students since the early 1960’s, and its female alumni have gone on to be chaplains, professors, teachers, counselors, missionaries, choir directors, writers, scholars, and lay ministers in the Orthodox Church. No student body in the past, however, has been joined by...

St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) has welcomed women students since the early 1960’s, and its female alumni have gone on to be chaplains, professors, teachers, counselors, missionaries, choir directors, writers, scholars, and lay ministers in the Orthodox Church. No student body in the past, however, has been joined by...

An evening of glorious music to celebrate the...

With faith in Christ and hope in the resurrection, Jack Hill (M.Div.’84) fell asleep in the Lord on November 30, 2022. Jack Hill loved Christ and the Church, history, the civil war, guns and target shooting, picking on the guitar or banjo, fixing things, making things, solving problems, trains and...

With faith in Christ and hope in the resurrection, we share news of the repose of Leon J. Lysaght, Jr., who served on the Board of Trustees at St Vladimir’s Seminary from 1997 to 2014. Leon Joseph Lysaght Jr. (Rocky) peacefully departed this earthly life on Dec. 2, 2022, while...