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Seminary continues to build up Sacred Arts Institute following new grant

The In Trust Center for Theological Schools has awarded St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) a $10,000 matching grant for the Seminary’s Institute of Sacred Arts (ISA). The Seminary received the grant August 19, 2019. The funds for the In Trust Center Resource Grant are supported by the Lilly Endowment...

50 Years of Collaboration: St. Vladimir’s & St. Nersess Seminaries Celebration

[img_assist|nid=29260|title=|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=350|height=453]For fifty years, St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) and St. Nersess Armenian Seminary have worked together to help build up the Body of Christ. This October, celebrate with us this milestone of fifty years of collaboration! An evening of events at St. Vladimir’s Seminary on Friday, October 11 includes:

Second annual Merit Essay Contest opens for seminarians

St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) has opened the 2019 edition of the annual St. Matthias Merit Scholarship Essay Contest. The competition is a small part of the school’s ongoing efforts to help its students afford the costs of theological education and formation. The essay contest is open to current...

Seminary’s 2019-2020 Academic Year begins

St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) welcomed twenty-two new seminarians to its campus Monday for the first day of the 2019-2020 Academic Year. The incoming class hails from three countries—the United States, Canada, and India—and twelve different jurisdictions. Orthodox Church in America (5)=22.5% Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America...

A Message from Seminary President Fr. Chad Hatfield

The beginning of the new academic year is always an exciting time at the Seminary. This year we are welcoming twenty-two new seminarians. They are from the United States, Canada, and India, which means a total of eight countries are represented in this year’s student body. READ: Seminary welcomes 22...

SVS Press publishes St. Maximus the Confessor’s theological vision of Liturgy

Saint Vladimir’s Seminary (SVS) Press has released On the Ecclesiastical Mystagogy by Saint Maximus the Confessor (c. 580-662). The new book, the latest title in SVS Press’s highly-praised Popular Patristic Series (PPS), features the original Greek text of St. Maximus’ work along with an English translation by Jonathan J. Armstrong...

Longtime Seminary Librarian Eleana Silk retires

After more than thirty years of faithful service in Christ to St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS), Eleana Silk is retiring from her position as librarian of the Seminary’s Father Georges Florovsky Library . "So many students, so many graduating classes, the internet and library database have helped to catalog...

In Memoriam: Archbishop Nikon

His Eminence, the Most Reverend Nikon , Archbishop of Boston, New England, and the Albanian Archdiocese (Orthodox Church in America), fell asleep in the Lord on Sunday, September 1, 2019 in Southbridge, MA. Born to a pious Orthodox family in 1945 in New York, Archbishop Nikon graduated from St. Vladimir’s...

2019 Summer Ordinations

It has been a busy and blessed summer! Since the end of the 2018-2019 Academic Year in May to the beginning of the 2019 Fall Semester, eight new priests have been added to the ranks of our student body and alumni fellowship, as well as three new deacons. More seminarians...

SVOTS welcomes 8 hierarchs for discussions about Seminary life

On Wednesday and Thursday, eight hierarchs from three Orthodox churches visited St. Vladimir’s Seminary (SVOTS) to get a closer look at the Seminary’s operations, curriculum, and future plans: Metropolitan Tikhon , Archbishops Benjamin , Melchisedek , Michael , and Alexander , and Bishop Paul from the Orthodox Church in America...