St. Vladimir’s Seminary (SVOTS) celebrated two milestones at the 2018 edition of Orthodox Education Day (OED) on Saturday, October 6: fifty years of OED and fifty years of St. Vladimir’s Seminary (SVS) Press. Education Day, which fell on the Feast of St. Innocent of Alaska , began with Hierarchical Divine...
Visit our #GivingTuesday resource page and access tools you'll need to help us spread the word! Give Now to Our #GivingTuesday Campaign This year, St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) is once again participating in #GivingTuesday, set for November 27. And this year, SVOTS will tithe 10% of the funds...
Since the end of the 2017-2018 Academic Year, four priests have been added to the ranks of our student body and alumni fellowship, as well as nine new deacons. This list only includes ordinations that took place during the summer of 2018 and the fall semester so far. More seminarians...
Members of St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) took part in “unforgettable” celebrations in Estonia as the Arvo Pärt Centre officially opened its doors in the village of Laulasmaa. SVOTS President Archpriest Chad Hatfield and Professor Peter Bouteneff, who directs the Seminary’s Arvo Pärt Project , traveled to Estonia for...
St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) has announced Ms Sophia Theodoratos as the winner of the 2018 St Matthias Merit Scholarship Essay Contest. Sixteen seminarians submitted entries for the essay contest, which was opened to current SVOTS students at the start of the fall semester . For her winning entry...
During their Fall Session at the Chancery in Syosset, NY, October 23 through 26, 2018, the members of the Holy Synod of Bishops confirmed the nomination by His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon of St. Vladimir’s Seminary Professor Archpriest Alexander Rentel as chancellor of the Orthodox Church in America. The appointment of...
St. Vladimir’s Seminary’s Fall Benefit & Theological Convocation brought people together from near and far to support scholarships for seminarians, celebrate forty years of ordained ministry for Seminary President Very Rev. Dr. Chad Hatfield , and lay out the vision for the future of theological education. On Thursday morning, November...
St. Vladimir’s Seminary’s Arvo Pärt Project co-presented an incredible concert featuring the Estonian composer’s music Monday night in New York City. The Project partnered with Sacred Music in a Sacred Space for the event. A sold-out crowd packed inside the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola for Arvo Pärt: The Sound...
On November 5, the 2021 Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) Cohort arrived on campus for their first onsite intensive. This cohort, the third that has formed since the D.Min. program was revived in 2014, is comprised of seven students from six different jurisdictions and denominations. The students of the 2021 cohort...
The new book, Mixed Marriage: An Orthodox History, “will surely become a standard work on the subject,” according to Archpriest John A. McGuckin, visiting research professor at Oxford University and emeritus professor of Byzantine Christian Studies at Columbia University & Union Theological Seminary. The book, written by Priest Anthony Roeber...