he Very Reverend Eugen J. Pentiuc, St. Vladimir's professor of Scripture and Semitic Languages, was invited by École biblique et archéologique française to spend six weeks in Jerusalem in the summer of 2015 completing his work for La Bible en ses traditions / The Bible in Its Traditions (or B.E.S.T)...

From July 30 through August 10, 2015, Hierodeacon Herman (Majkrzak), director of Chapel Music and lecturer in Liturgical Music at St. Vladimir's, was a guest of the Diocese of Alaska of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA). With the blessing of the Right Reverend David, Bishop of Sitka and Alaska...

Very Rev. Dr. Alexander Rentel On Saturday, September 5, 2015, the the Very Reverend Dr. Alexander Rentel , assistant professor of Canon Law and Byzantine Studies, represented St. Vladimir’s Seminary at the canonization of a new Serbian saint, St. Sebastian of San Francisco and Jackson. His Holiness Patriarch Irinej of...

On Saturday, September 26, 2015, 60 students and faculty from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music came to St. Vladimir's Seminary for a morning in Three Hierarchs Chapel. The visiting students will be traveling next spring to Estonia and Finland, and their visit to the seminary was part of their...

On October 22–24, 2015, the North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation gathered at the St. Spyridon Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Worcester, MA, at the precise location where the dialogue began 50 years ago, in 1965. In addition to its ongoing work, the Consultation held a public event at Assumption College at...

n a meeting with the Certification Commission on October 13, 2015, Fr. Adrian Budica, the seminary's Supervisor of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) and Director of Field Education, became certified as an Association of Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) Full Supervisor. While it usually takes between 4-10 years to achieve this, Fr...

On Saturday November 7, 2015, Assistant Professor of Homiletics and Rhetoric the Reverend Dr. J. Sergius Halvorsen made a presentation on Adult Education at the Orthodox Institute held at the Antiochian Village Conference Center. Father Sergius' talk was titled, "How to Find a Continuing Education Program that is Right for...

The Orthodox Church in Kenya is the fastest growing Orthodox Church in the world, numbering some 1.5 million souls in 250 parishes—30 in Nairobi alone. From November 10–17, 2015, Dr. Paul Meyendorff, The Father Alexander Schmemann Professor of Liturgical Theology, traveled to the Archbishop Makarios Orthodox Seminary in Nairobi, Kenya...

SVOTS Chancellor/CEO Archpriest Chad Hatfield was invited by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow to be one of the presenters at an academic conference marking the 1000th Anniversary of the Repose of St. Vladimir. Throughout 2015 there have been various programs and conferences marking this significant anniversary. Father Chad was...

Because of its strong program in teaching and presenting Orthodox sacred arts, St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary faculty were strongly represented in the panel of speakers at the 8th Sophia Annual Conference on the theme of "The Sacred Arts of Eastern Orthodoxy: Icon, Music, Rhetoric, Architecture and Artifacts" on December...