Our entire seminary community mourns the falling asleep yesterday, October 2, 2017, of His Grace Antoun, retired bishop of the Diocese of Miami and the Southeast of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America (AOCANA). His Grace was a member of the graduating Class of 1962 of St. Vladimir's...

Visit our #GivingTuesday resource page and access tools you'll need to help us spread the word! Give Now to Our #GivingTuesday Campaign Last fall on November 29, 2016, people from around the world gave generously to St. Vladimir's Seminary’s #GivingTuesday campaign—$127,800! (#GivingTuesday follows Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and its...

Hundreds of friends and alumni attended our annual open house, Orthodox Education Day, which this year had the timely theme, “Modern Martyrs: Christians of the Middle East and North Africa.” Explicating the theme in an informative keynote address was the Reverend Dr. George Parsenios, associate professor of New Testament, Princeton...

Seven members of our seminary community, including President Archpriest Chad Hatfield and Trustee Carla Ann Newbern Thomas, M.D., recently participated in the 24th Annual Ancient Christianity Conference of the Brotherhood of St. Moses the Black , a Pan-Orthodox organization which endeavors to make the Orthodox faith available to the African...

Our alumnus, the Very Reverend George Rados, pastor emeritus of Ss. Peter and Paul Orthodox Church in Potomac, MD, fell asleep in the Lord on Sunday evening, October 15, 2017. Father George was a member of the graduating Class of 1961. Counted among Father George’s accomplishments during his long tenure...

Seminary alumnus Pdn. Keith Russin reposed in the Lord on Thursday, October 26, 2017. Protodeacon Keith attended St. Vladimir’s Seminary from 1968 to 1971, and graduated with the Master of Divinity degree. He was assigned to Holy Resurrection Cathedral in Wilkes-Barre, PA (Orthodox Church in America) for many years, and...

[img_assist|nid=25446|title=|desc=Missionaries Dn. Perry Hamalis, Fr. Chad Hatfield, Metropolitan Ambrosios, and Dn. Christopher Moore during Missions Weekend 2017 (photo: Dn. Ryan Tellalian)|link=none|align=left|width=350|height=314]October 20–21, 2017 • On-campus “We’re ‘mission minded’ here at St. Vladimir’s,” says Archpriest Chad Hatfield, seminary president, “and that becomes most evident during each annual “Missions Weekend” held on our campus. “This year, visiting speakers Metropolitan Ambrosios of the Orthodox Metropolis of Korea and Nathan Hoppe of Albania presented riveting accounts about their respective mission fields,” he noted.

In September, a new poll from NBC News and The Wall Street Journal reported that 7-in-10 Americans viewed race relations in the United States as “poor.” The poll revealed that 28% of the public, including 24% of white and 40% of black Americans, stated that race relations are “very bad,”...

Our seminary was very well represented at the 2017 Annual Conference of the Orthodox Christian Association of Medicine, Psychology and Religion (OCAMPR) , held November 2–4 at the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Cultural Center, Somerset, NJ. Among the several faculty members in attendance was the Very Reverend John Behr, D.Phil....

The Board of Trustees of St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary has resolved to open the search for the vacant position of the Academic Dean of the Seminary. St Vladimir’s is a graduate theological school that is chartered by the Regents of the University of the State of New York. The...