St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) Professor and former dean Very Rev. Dr. John Behr is joining the faculty at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. Father John has been appointed as a professor in divinity at the University’s School of Divinity, History and Philosophy. Father John, the Seminary’s Father...

A large group of Orthodox Christian leaders—including well-known authors and speakers Fr. Barnabas Powell and Kh. Frederica Mathewes-Green and successful entrepreneurs Gabriel Otte and Calee Lee—once again gathered at St. Vladimir’s Seminary (SVOTS) for the annual Orthodox Christian Leadership Initiative (OCLI) Conference. The Orthodox Vision Foundation (OVF) has hosted the...

Three hierarchs from the Syriac Orthodox Church (SOC) visited their seminarians on campus and met with Seminary leadership Thursday: His Eminence Mor Dionysius John Kawak, archbishop and patriarchal vicar of the Archdiocese of the SOC for the Eastern United States of America; His Eminence Mor Titus Yeldho, archbishop and patriarchal...

Saint Gregory of Nyssa’s Catechetical Discourse is now available through St. Vladimir’s Seminary (SVS) Press. The new entry in the Popular Patristic Series (PPS) features the original Greek text along with an English translation by Seminary Alumnus and SVS Press Editor Rev. Ignatius Green. Saint Gregory of Nyssa wrote the...

St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) has announced Seminarian Andrew Kayaian as the winner of the 2019 St. Matthias Merit Scholarship Essay Contest. The contest was opened to current SVOTS students at the beginning of the fall semester . For his winning entry, titled, “’Follow me’: Religious Reality over Facebook...

With faith in Christ and hope in the resurrection, we share news of the repose of Rev. Dr. Thomas (Athanasios) Parthenakis of Erie, PA, who fell asleep in the Lord on Thursday, October 3, 2019 following a battle with cancer. Father Thomas was a professor of American history at Gannon...

5-6 October 2019 • On Campus His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon presided at services Saturday and Sunday as the Seminary community celebrated the Feast of the Glorification of St. Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow, Enlightener of the Aleuts, and Apostle to the Americas (October 6). The celebration began with festal All-Night Vigil at Three Hierarchs Chapel Saturday. At the Vigil, His Beatitude spoke about St. Innocent.

St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS), Yonkers, NY, and St. Nersess Armenian Seminary , Armonk, NY, are preparing to celebrate more than fifty years of collaboration on Friday, October 11. Those five decades include several milestones. A formal relationship between the two seminaries began in 1968, when negotiations with SVOTS...

Metropolitan Kallistos Ware’s modern classic, The Orthodox Way , is now available in a new edition from St. Vladimir’s Seminary (SVS) Press. The book—which has for decades served as a popular introduction to Orthodox Christianity for those outside Orthodoxy and deepened the faith of many already in the Church—is the...

St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) and St. Nersess Armenian Seminary , Armonk, NY, celebrated fifty years of collaboration with a special event Friday, October 11, on SVOTS’ campus. St. Vladimir’s & St. Nersess Seminaries: A Timeline of Collaboration The event began with Vespers at Three Hierarchs Chapel celebrated according...