Despite Winter Storm Stella dumping nearly 2 feet of snow and ice on our campus on the first day of our Spring Open House, eight prospective students were able to brave the weather and attend the event, March 15–17, 2017. During their 3-day stay, our visiting inquirers were fully integrated...
St. Vladimir’s Seminary is pleased to announce that in January 2017 it received an unprecedented major monetary gift to support St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press (SVS Press), its renowned publishing house. The gift, made by Bronson and Kathleen Eden, will be used to establish “The Mr. & Mrs. Bronson B.T. Eden...
Representatives from St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary , Sankt Ignatios Theological Academy , (Stockholm, Sweden), Saint Athanasius College (SAC, Melbourne, Australia), and the Amsterdam Centre for Orthodox Theology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (ACOT at VU; Amsterdam, The Netherlands), met in Amsterdam on March 27–28, 2017, to discuss areas of...
On Wednesday, March 29, 2017, a delegation of the Serbian Orthodox Church, led by His Grace the Right Reverend Irinej (Dobrijevic), bishop of the Diocese of Eastern America, met with Archpriest Dr. Chad Hatfield, president of St. Vladimir’s Seminary. They discussed potential areas of academic cooperation between St. Vladimir’s and...
As Holy Week began, many clergy from our seminary community participated an ancient ritual: the preparation of Holy Chrism . They gathered at Saint Tikhon’s Monastery , in South Canaan, PA, with other priests and deacons, and bishops, to confect the specially blended oil used in the Rite of Chrismation...
A celebratory book launch of Habib Girgis: Coptic Orthodox Educator and a Light in the Darkness (SVS Press, 2017), with guest author His Grace Dr. Anba Suriel , bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Archdiocese of Melbourne and Affiliated Regions in Australia, was held on Saturday, April 22. His Grace offered...
His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon , primate of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) and chair of the Board of Trustees of St. Vladimir’s Seminary , has announced two significant actions taken by the Board concerning the governance of the Seminary, at a special meeting Wednesday, May 3, 2017. His Beatitude...
With the blessing of His Grace Irinej, bishop of the Eastern Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church and St. Vladimir’s Seminary alumnus (M.Div. ’82), the parish community of St. George Serbian Orthodox Church , North Canton, OH, hosted an alumni gathering and gala banquet in support of the Seminary on...
The music of Estonian composer and Orthodox Christian Arvo Pärt—considered “spiritually powerful” by a large and widely diverse audience—provided the basis for an exploration of the relationship between sound and the sacred at an international conference i n the heart of NYC’s arts scene, May 1–4, 2017. Musicologists, art historians...
Our Seminary’s 2017 Commencement ceremonies, held May 20, included several distinguishing moments, in addition to the granting of degrees to 16 graduates in three academic programs. Among the exceptional highlights were remarks to graduates by His Beatitude the Most Blessed Tikhon , primate of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA)...