Memory Eternal! The entire community of faculty, staff and students at St. Vladimir's Theological Orthodox Seminary (SVOTS) mourns the loss of our Board of Trustees Vice President and Vice Chairman, His Eminence The Most Reverend Philip (Saliba) , Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of All North America of the...
Over Holy Week and Pascha 2014, alumnus Dr. Brandon Gallaher returned to St. Vladimir's to worship and visit with the community. A British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at University of Oxford, he has been serving as a Fellow of the Notre Dame Institute for...
His Grace Mark (Maymon), Class of 1991, was enthroned as Bishop of Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania, the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), during a Hierarchical Divine Liturgy at St. Stephen Orthodox Cathedral in Pittsburgh, PA, on May 10. His Beatitude The Most Blessed Tikhon , primate of the OCA, presided...
"The joy of the harvest is so great," said Jesse Brandow (alumnus, '13) during his public lecture on Mayan Orthodoxy at St. Vladimir's Seminary. Sponsored by the SVOTS Student Council, the lecture was held on May 18th and drew people from throughout the tri-state area. Mr. Brandow described the explosive...
On June 5, 2014, hierarchs, clergy, and lay delegates from the Self-Ruled Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America convened in Chicago, IL at the Hyatt Regency Hotel for a Special Convention, with the purpose of selecting three candidates whose names will be submitted to the Holy Synod of the...
As many people saw last month, the San Diego region experienced dramatic fires that burned thousands of acres and, interestingly, got people thinking about the fragility of "ordinary" life. At the Orthodox Church in America's St. Katherine of Alexandria Mission, the faithful also shared the view that the area is...
A new video features the unique ministry of Youth Equipped to Serve (YES) with Director Katrina Bitar, St. Vladimir's graduate of the Class of 2009. YES is a program under the auspices of the Fellowship of Orthodox Christians United to Serve (FOCUS); its central purpose is to engage youth in...
The Very Rev. Macarius Targonsky, a 1955 alumnus of St. Vladimir's Seminary, reposed in the Lord Wednesday, June 25, 2014, at Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna, Alaska. He was 84 years old. Services were held on June 30 and July 1, with The Right Rev. David (Mahaffey), bishop of Sitka...
Imagine walking in the footsteps of Jesus and his followers. Now imagine uncovering firsthand the very buildings they would have seen and discovering objects they would have used in their daily lives, including domestic wares and implements for fishing. "Such were the experiences of St. Vladimir's seminarian Elizabeth Siniscalchi and...
Alumnus Dr. Will Cohen graduated from Brown University in Providence, RI in 1988, before earning his Master of Divinity at St. Vladimir's in 2002 with the thesis "Ecclesiology and the Dialogues between Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches." At Catholic University of America in Washington D.C., he continued a similar...