In the wake of "Frankenstorm Sandy," which knocked out power to the campus of St. Vladimir's Seminary this past Monday evening, seminary administrators have decided to close the campus and cancel all classes until November 10–11. The reason: temperatures in Yonkers are rapidly dipping and predictions of total power restoration...
View a photo gallery of the exhibit opening An exhibit entitled "Icon: The Way to the Kingdom," will run until December 16 at the Villanova University Art Gallery , housed in the Connelly Center, Villanova, PA. Choirs from St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) and St. Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary...
Nashotah House Theological Seminary recently hosted His Eminence, The Most Rev. Hilarion (Alfeyev), metropolitan of Volokolamsk and chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations, and The Very Rev. Chad Hatfield, chancellor/CEO of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, for a weekend that witnessed to the relationship between the...
Visit the Arvo Pärt Project website Beginning January 15, 2013, St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary will offer an extension course for the public: “The Music and Faith of Arvo Pärt,” taught by Peter C. Bouteneff , associate professor of Systematic Theology. Arvo Pärt, whose works rank him as the 3rd-most...
The Orthodox Christian Fellowship (OCF) and the Orthodox Church in America's (OCA) Department of Youth, Young Adult, and Campus Ministry , are co–sponsoring a free and public forum on Tuesday, November 27, 2012, titled "Campus Ministry Night." The evening will feature presentations by OCF Executive Director Jennifer Nahas; The Rev. John Diamantis, regional OCF chaplain for New York and New Jersey; and the Chair of the Department of Youth, Young Adult, and Campus Ministry, Andrew Boyd. Presenters will focus on practical skills and useable resources needed for campus and young adult ministry. The forum will be held in the Bashir Auditorium on the campus of St. Vladimir's Seminary.
View the photo gallery, "Frankenstorm Sandy" The seminary community began a slow recovery from the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, as lights and heat were finally restored, and as work, class, and chapel schedules normalized. There was a "reverse exodus" of students and families, as they returned to their dwellings. Staff...
His Eminence The Most Rev. Tikhon , archbishop of Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania, was elected Primate of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) during the 17th All-American Council of the OCA at Holy Trinity Church, Parma, OH, on Tuesday, November 13, 2012. According to the statutes of St. Vladimir's Orthodox...
[img_assist|nid=11296|title=|desc=SVOTS students at March for Life, 2012|link=none|align=left|width=300|height=200]The 40th March for Life , an annual event in the nation's capital marking the anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion, is scheduled for January 25, 2013. Accordingly, the St. Ambrose Society, St. Vladimir's Seminary's Pro Life group, has reserved a 47–passenger bus with restroom facilities, which will leave from the SVOTS campus at about 5 a.m. on January 25, to travel to Washington D.C. for the March; the bus will return at about midnight. The rally in Washington D.C. will begin at noon at the National Mall, with the March immediately following the rally.
St. Vladimir's Alumnus The Very Rev. Aaron Archer ('97) fell asleep in the Lord on Thursday morning, November 15, 2012. Funeral services and the Divine Liturgy will be celebrated at Holy Transfiguration Church, Pearl River, NY, on Sunday evening and Monday morning, November 18 and 19. Visitation will begin at...
On a sunny autumn Saturday, students and staff at St. Vladimir's Seminary participated in a campus clean–up event, sponsored by the student–run Ecology Group. Open to anyone on campus who wanted to pitch in, the environmental effort was focused on the shores and water of Crestwood Lake, where debris had...