As we approach Pascha, the Feast of Feasts, it is fitting that we consider once again the nature of the banquet to which we are invited. As we will sing at Matins on Holy Thursday, we are called to ascend, with our minds on high, to enjoy the Master’s hospitality...
His Grace Basil (Essey) (SVS '73), has been named secretary to the Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America. His Grace is the Bishop of Wichita and the Diocese of Mid-America in the Self-Ruled Antiochian Christian Archdiocese of North and South America. The SVS Board of Trustees bestowed the degree...
At the invitation of His Beatitude Sawa, archbishop of Warsaw and metropolitan of All Poland, Fr. John Matusiak delivered the keynote at a national gathering of Orthodox catechists held at the Orthodox Culture Center, Bialystok, Poland, September 24–25, 2010. The conference was organized by the Publishing Department of the Orthodox...
The Very Rev. Michael Westerberg and his wife, Matushka Lydia, rejoiced with friends and parishioners on Sunday, October 10, 2010, as they celebrated thirty years of service at Holy Transfiguration Church, New Haven, Connecticut. His Grace, The Rt. Rev. Nikon, bishop of Boston and New England, presided at the hierarchical...
Archpriest Alexander Atty, SVOTS alumnus ('79), was recently installed as the seventh dean of St. Tikhon's Seminary. His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah, primate of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), and His Grace Tikhon, bishop of Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania, the seminary's rector, concelebrated the formal installation Service of Thanksgiving at...
Today we commemorate the ten-year anniversary of the repose of His Grace Boris, bishop of Chicago and the Midwest (1978–1988) and St. Vladimir’s Alumnus (’46). The son of a priest, Bishop Boris felt nurtured and called to service in the Church from an early age. “Ever since I can remember...
Deacon Nicholas Denysenko (alumnus, ’00) was recently appointed the new Director of the Huffington Ecumenical Institute at Loyola Marymount University (LMU), where he also holds the position of Assistant Professor of Theological Studies, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts. The Huffington Ecumenical Institute (HEI) focuses on issues impacting the daily lives...
St. Vladimir’s Seminary community is praying for the souls of two departed alumni, Fr. Theodore Ziton and Annette Milkovich. Fr. Theodore, who studied in the Master of Divinity program at St. Vladimir's from 1951-1954, is formerly of St. George Cathedral in Wichita, Kansa s (1963–66) and was retired from St...
Many graduates of St. Vladimir's fondly remember Dr. Veselin Kesich , not only as a fellow alumnus but also as professor emeritus of New Testament at the seminary, who taught at our school from 1953–1991. Professor Kesich celebrated his 90th birthday recently, having been born March 12, 1921. His son...
Father Rauno Pietarinen will soon begin a one year assignment in Ivalo, Finland, on the Barents Sea, ministering to the Sami or Laplander native peoples of far Northern Finland. The native Skolt Sami People have been Orthodox since the 16th century when St. Trifion evanglized, planted churches and founded the...