St. Vladimir’s Seminary is pleased to announce Tim Nieuwsma as its new Major Gifts Officer in the Office for Institutional Advancement. Tim joins the team at SVOTS after 30 years of experience in the business and non-profit world. Tim grew up as an “MK” (missionary kid) in the Philippines and...

View the new SVS Press and Bookstore Website here ! St. Vladimir’s Seminary’s academic press and bookshop are sporting a fresh face on the World Wide Web. With the launch of their new Website, SVS Press and Bookstore aim to provide retail customers with a simple, intuitive online shopping experience...

Archpriest Alexander Rentel, assistant professor of Canon Law and Byzantine Studies at St. Vladimir's, participated in the Fourth International Congress of the Society of Oriental Liturgy. The congress took place at Notre Dame University, Louaize Zouk Mosbeh, near Beirut, Lebanon. During the congress a group of forty international scholars, teachers...

His Holiness Abune Paulos, who was Patriarch and Catholicos of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Archbishop of Axum and Ichege of the See of St. Teklehaimanot, fell asleep in the Lord in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, early this morning, according to a BBC report. Other news sources, including " The...

The Rev. Joel McEachen (SVOTS ’68) has been elected president of the 172 member Retired Clergy Association (RCA) of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (GOA). The election took place at the biennial general meeting of the RCA held in conjunction with the 2012 Clergy–Laity Congress in Phoenix, AZ, in...

Whenever someone speaks of “American Orthodoxy,” there is usually an unspoken understanding that the term refers to North American Orthodoxy: the United States, Canada, and sometimes Mexico. This way of speaking is indeed convenient, considering that the majority of Orthodox parishes in the Western Hemisphere are still located in North...

St. Vladimir’s Seminary welcomes the members of the Class of 2015! Over the course of eleven hectic days, new and returning students and their families: participated in a full schedule of services, registered for classes, auditioned for choir, picked up ID cards, congregated for cookouts, attended the first gathering for...

Summer is a busy season for the campus maintenance department. Plant Manager Rafael Rivera and his two assistants, Ramon Contreras and Yuri Shcherbakov, completed a number of major projects on the Seminary's 12 scenic acres. Two part-time summer student employees and several outside contractors assisted in the renovations, enabling the...

It was a trinity of firsts: in the first week of August, The Very Rev. Dr. John Behr, dean and professor of Patristics, embarked upon his first trip to Alaska where, as the first presenter, he offered a series of lectures at the Eagle River Institute of Orthodox Christian Studies...

In his first visit to campus as a hierarch, His Grace The Right Rev. John Abdalah , auxiliary bishop for the Antiochian Archdiocese's Diocese of Worcester and New England, presided over the liturgy for the Feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos at Three Hierarchs Chapel on campus. Bishop John...