Staff of the St. Vladimir's Seminary's Arvo Pärt Project were among those who greeted Estonian Prime Minister Taavi Rõivas at a reception in New York, on December 12, 2014. Prime Minister Rõivas, elected in March of this year, told the team, "I am a big Arvo Pärt fan!" The Estonian...

Rev. Dn. Michael Hyatt is a bestselling author, speaker, entrepreneur, and the former CEO of Thomas Nelson. He currently serves St. Vladimir’s Seminary as executive chair of the Board of Trustees, and is attached to St. Ignatius Antiochian Orthodox Church in Franklin, TN.

From February 27 to March 1, Dr. Paul Meyendorff, Alexander Schmemann Professor of Liturgical Theology, traveled to Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, for a conference on "Sacred Architecture of East and West: Lessons from History and Contemporary Trends." The conference was sponsored by the Huffington Ecumenical Institute , an...

As the holder of the Donohue Chair at the Pontifical Oriental Institute for the 2014-15 academic year, Dr. Paul Meyendorff, St. Vladimir's Father Alexander Schmemann Professor of Liturgical Theology, traveled to Rome, Italy on March 19–28, 2015. The Oriental Institute, part of the Gregorian University, offers graduate degrees in Eastern...

On April 16, 2015, the "Live Ideas" festival sponsored every year by New York Live Arts featured the life and work of famed Orthodox composer Arvo Pärt. Renowned musician Laurie Anderson, the festival's curator, enlisted the Arvo Pärt Project at St. Vladimir's Seminary to help her plan and organize three...

On April 29, 2015, Dr. Paul Meyendorff, The Fr. Alexander Schmemann Professor of Liturgical Theology, participated in a colloquium on Orthodox-Catholic relations at Seton Hall University, in South Orange, NJ. Professor Meyendorff delivered a lecture on a 2010 common statement issued by the North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation . The...

Immediately following Commencement, St. Vladimir's Seminary hosted t he 88th meeting of the North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation on June 2–4, 2015. The Consultation, this year celebrating its 50th anniversary, continued its current work on an agreed statement on the role of the laity, focusing primarily on the implications of...

Very Rev. Dr. Alexander Rentel From Monday, June 15, to Wednesday, June 17, 2015, Archpriest Alexander Rentel, assistant professor of Canon Law, accompanied His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon, president and board chairman of St. Vladimir’s Seminary, to Constantinople for a meeting between the Executive Committee of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox...

From June 17-24, 2015, Dr. Paul Meyendorff , The Father Alexander Schmemann Professor of Liturgical Theology at St. Vladimir's, attended the inaugural meeting of the new Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches (WCC). Held at the Caraiman Monastery in Busteni, Romania, t he meeting brought together...

Dr. Peter Bouteneff, St. Vladimir's professor of Systematic Theology, has written the September 2015 cover feature for BBC Music, the world's biggest-selling classical music magazine. The issue, dedicated to famed Estonian composer and Orthodox Christian, Arvo Pärt, hit the newstands in early August, with copies available in the United States...