With faith in Christ and in the hope of resurrection, we share the news of the repose of our alumnus, Leonard W. Soroka, who fell asleep in the Lord on Sunday, March 10 after a difficult battle with cancer. Born in 1950, the son of Archpriest Vladimir and Matushka Olga...

On the first two days of Great Lent, the community of St. Vladimir’s Seminary entered into its annual Lenten Retreat. On Clean Monday and Tuesday, classes were cancelled and students were encouraged to practice silence. The community entered the chapel together several times each day for a fuller cycle of...

Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev’s Orthodox Christianity, Vol. V is now available through St. Vladimir’s Seminary (SVS) Press, marking the completion of the monumental Orthodox Christianity series . The five-volume series is a detailed and systematic exposition of the history, canonical structure, doctrine, social and moral teaching, liturgical services, and spiritual life...

[img_assist|nid=29091|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=300|height=300]Explore matter, materials, and materiality in Byzantine art and culture; delve into topics including the Eucharist, relics, icons, church decoration, jewelry, and more as you experience Byzantine Materiality , a conference of the Sacred Arts Initiative , May 8 through 11 at St. Vladimir’s Seminary (SVOTS).

“Peace,” “unity,” “togetherness.” This past weekend these recurrent themes permeated the extraordinary visit of the relics of our seminary’s patron saint, the Holy Great Prince Vladimir, Equal-to-the-Apostles, to our campus chapel. Orthodox Christians from near and far, and from various ecclesi and ethnic backgrounds, came to bow before the ornate...

With faith in Christ and hope in the resurrection, we share news of the repose of Seminary Alumnus and noted Church musician Walter Shymansky, who fell asleep in the Lord on Sunday, March 31, 2019. Born on July 29, 1928, the son of Archpriest Walter (later Bishop Peter) and Matushka...

[img_assist|nid=29110|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=300|height=300]Giving thanks to God, the trustees, faculty, and students of St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) invite the public to the Commencement of the Class of 2019 , Saturday, May 18. Ceremonies will begin at 2:00 p.m., with a “Prayer of Thanksgiving” in Three Hierarchs Chapel, followed at 2:30 p.m. by Commencement Exercises in the Metropolitan Philip Auditorium of the John G. Rangos Family Building. The commencement speaker this year is Archpriest Alexander Rentel, SEOD, chancellor of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA). About the 2019 Commencement Speaker

A documentary set to release later this year will explore God and nature, faith and climate change, and the experience of Orthodox communities around the world. The Face of God: The Orthodox Church on Climate Change , produced by The Orthodox Fellowship of the Transfiguration , and written and directed...

For the first time, Fr. Alexander Schmemann’s classic For the Life of the World is now available in audio book format. Purchase For the Life of the World audio book through Mars Hill Audio Saint Vladimir’s Seminary (SVS) Press partnered with Mars Hill Audio to produce the audio book edition...

[img_assist|nid=29125|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=250|height=250]Parallel Love: The Story of a Band Called Luxury is the story of a band from Georgia, a band with three members who went on to study at St. Vladimir's Seminary and are now Orthodox priests. On the verge of success in the 1990s, the band suffered a devastating accident—an accident that led Priests Christopher Foley (’06), James Bozeman (’12), and David Lee Bozeman (’12) to Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Meet the band members at the theatrical premiere of the documentary in New York City, May 15-19. Director Matt Hinton and members of Luxury will take part in a Q&A session each evening following the screening of Parallel Love.