Visit our #GivingTuesday resource page and access tools you'll need to help us spread the word! Give Now to Our #GivingTuesday Campaign Last fall on November 29, 2016, people from around the world gave generously to St. Vladimir's Seminary’s #GivingTuesday campaign—$127,800! (#GivingTuesday follows Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and its...

[img_assist|nid=25021|title=|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=299|height=251]As part of the Seminary’s “Revitalizing Parish Music” program, a “Music on the Mount” concert will be given Saturday, October 21 at 7 p.m. at Holy Trinity Orthodox Church, in Danbury, CT , where Archpriest Luke Mihaly is the pastor. A select mixed choir led by Robin Freeman , who is the Director of Music at the Seminary, will be performing pieces taken from a forthcoming SVS Press CD titled, “Every Day Will I Bless Thee,” as well as some traditional hymns.

Hundreds of friends and alumni attended our annual open house, Orthodox Education Day, which this year had the timely theme, “Modern Martyrs: Christians of the Middle East and North Africa.” Explicating the theme in an informative keynote address was the Reverend Dr. George Parsenios, associate professor of New Testament, Princeton...

[img_assist|nid=25366|title=|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=300|height=200]We are excited to welcome Khouria Krista West, clergy wife, mother, ecclesiastical tailor, and proprietor of Krista West Vestments to St. Vladimir’s October 14–16. Khouria Krista is the commentator of the podcast series, “The Opinionated Tailor,” produced by Ancient Faith Ministries, and is also the author of the SVS Press title: The Garments of Salvation: Orthodox Christian Liturgical Vesture .

Seven members of our seminary community, including President Archpriest Chad Hatfield and Trustee Carla Ann Newbern Thomas, M.D., recently participated in the 24th Annual Ancient Christianity Conference of the Brotherhood of St. Moses the Black , a Pan-Orthodox organization which endeavors to make the Orthodox faith available to the African...

Our alumnus, the Very Reverend George Rados, pastor emeritus of Ss. Peter and Paul Orthodox Church in Potomac, MD, fell asleep in the Lord on Sunday evening, October 15, 2017. Father George was a member of the graduating Class of 1961. Counted among Father George’s accomplishments during his long tenure...

Seminary alumnus Pdn. Keith Russin reposed in the Lord on Thursday, October 26, 2017. Protodeacon Keith attended St. Vladimir’s Seminary from 1968 to 1971, and graduated with the Master of Divinity degree. He was assigned to Holy Resurrection Cathedral in Wilkes-Barre, PA (Orthodox Church in America) for many years, and...

[img_assist|nid=25446|title=|desc=Missionaries Dn. Perry Hamalis, Fr. Chad Hatfield, Metropolitan Ambrosios, and Dn. Christopher Moore during Missions Weekend 2017 (photo: Dn. Ryan Tellalian)|link=none|align=left|width=350|height=314]October 20–21, 2017 • On-campus “We’re ‘mission minded’ here at St. Vladimir’s,” says Archpriest Chad Hatfield, seminary president, “and that becomes most evident during each annual “Missions Weekend” held on our campus. “This year, visiting speakers Metropolitan Ambrosios of the Orthodox Metropolis of Korea and Nathan Hoppe of Albania presented riveting accounts about their respective mission fields,” he noted.

In September, a new poll from NBC News and The Wall Street Journal reported that 7-in-10 Americans viewed race relations in the United States as “poor.” The poll revealed that 28% of the public, including 24% of white and 40% of black Americans, stated that race relations are “very bad,”...

[img_assist|nid=25481|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=200|height=150]The 35 th Annual Father Alexander Schmemann lecture will focus on the centenary anniversary of the enthronement of St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow. Dr. Scott Kenworthy , seminary alumnus (M.A. ’96) and associate professor of Comparative Religion at Miami University, Ohio, will be our guest lecturer. The title of his address is: “St. Tikhon of Moscow (1865–1925) and the Orthodox Church in North America and Revolutionary Russia.” The lecture will be part of an Academic Convocation that includes the Commencement Ceremony for graduating Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) students. The graduating students, who comprise the Cohort of 2017, are the first group ever to have been enrolled in the hybrid D.Min.