[img_assist|nid=28441|title=|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=300|height=420]We have a very special event planned for the Ecclesiastical New Year. On Saturday, September 1, our student-led St. Herman’s Society is bringing SVOTS Alumnus and SVS Press author Archpriest Michael Oleksa to campus to headline a full day of events! Fr. Michael, who has ministered and worked for decades in Alaska, will speak to "The Legacy of St. Herman and the Alaskan Mission Today." The special day will also include an Akathist and Supplication service for the New Year, a walking tour, and the planting and blessing of new trees. Here is the full schedule:

St. Vladimir’s Seminary’s 2018-2019 Academic Year has begun! Thirty-three seminarians comprise the incoming class. Thirty-one of them are new students, including 8 in the Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) Cohort of 2021, 9 in the Master of Arts (M.A.) program, and 14 in the Master of Divinity (M.Div.) program. Two returning...

[img_assist|nid=28456|title=|desc=|link=none|align=middle|width=550|height=711] This November, we invite you to join us in worship, celebration, service, and dialogue at St. Vladimir’s Seminary’s Fall Benefit and Theological Convocation. The two-day event is multi-faceted: it is a celebration of the local feast of the reception of St. Vladimir’s relics to the Seminary’s Three Hierarchs Chapel five years ago; it is a fundraising benefit to help SVOTS seminarians graduate without tuition debt as they go forth to serve the church; it is a celebration of forty years of ordained ministry for The Very Rev. Dr. Chad Hatfield , president of SVOTS ; it is a theological convocation setting the vision for SVOTS, titled, “ Theological Education in the Twenty-First Century .”

Alumnus Archpriest Michael Oleksa (’73) delivered a powerful, enlightening, and heart-felt message on the campus of St. Vladimir's Seminary (SVOTS) Saturday as part of the Seminary's celebration of the Ecclesiastical New Year . The New Year festivities were organized by the St. Herman’s Society for Orthodox Ecology , one of...

[img_assist|nid=28506|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=400|height=711]The Arvo Pärt Project at St. Vladimir’s Seminary is helping to present another beautiful concert featuring the music of the great Estonian composer. In partnership with Sacred Music in a Sacred Space , we are pleased to present Arvo Pärt: The Sound of the Sacred Monday, November 12 at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York City.

Alumnus Archpriest John Harvey, 73, fell asleep in the Lord Tuesday, September 11, 2018. Fr. John had served as rector of Sts. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Youngstown, OH for the past eleven years. Fr. Harvey was born January 21, 1945, in Hollywood, California and was the son...

[img_assist|nid=28691|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=350|height=453]Do you ever read the Epistle, or read the Psalms or other Old Testament readings at Vespers? Or, have you ever chanted the Hours? Or, have you ever wondered why Orthodox Christians chant when they read, instead of using a speaking voice? Then the “ Workshop for Readers and Musicians ,” sponsored by the Diocese of New York and New Jersey (Orthodox Church in America) and hosted on the campus of St. Vladimir’s Seminary, is for you. Whether or not you are a tonsured reader, if you have ever read during liturgical services or simply want to know more about reading during liturgical services, we welcome you to be a participant in this workshop.

Eleven scholars came together on the campus of St. Vladimir’s Seminary to explore the theme of " Byzantine Materiality .” The scholars convened for a three-day workshop held September 14 to 16. The gathering was the latest in the Seminary’s Sacred Arts Initiative (SAI), which is funded by a grant...

With faith in Christ and in the hope of resurrection, we share the news of the repose of our alumnus, Archpriest Dragan Filipovic, who graduated from St. Vladimir’s Seminary in 1971. Fr. Dragan, of Pittsburgh, died unexpectedly Tuesday, September 18, 2018. He was 73. Fr. Dragan was born December 30...

More than eighty people took part as the Orthodox Advanced Leadership Conference returned to St. Vladimir’s Seminary (SVOTS). The conference, titled, “Faith and Business Synergy,” began Thursday, September 28 and ended after Divine Liturgy at Three Hierarchs Chapel Sunday, September 30. This was the second Leadership Conference hosted by the...