The St. Vladimir's Seminary Library recently received the Skvir–Buketoff Music Collection from The Very Rev. Daniel (SVOTS '69) and Tamara Skvir, rector and choir director of the Holy Transfiguration Chapel in Princeton, NJ (Orthodox Church in America). The Collection consisted of four boxes of Eastern Orthodox liturgical music published from...

View the photo galleries: Ordination of The Rev. Dn. Scott Miller (Facebook) Ordination of The Rev. Dn. Steven Bruns (Leanne Parrott Photography) The midpoint of Great Lent marked a life–changing milepost for two of our seminarians, Scott Miller and Steven Bruns. Both were ordained to the Holy Diaconate during the...

This northernmost Orthodox parish in North America consists of a diverse group: people of Russian, Yupik, and Aleut backgrounds; cradle and convert Christians; soldiers and families from Ft. Wainwright and Eielson Air Force Base; and university students. Assisted by their host, The Rev. Isaac Farha, Fr. Chad and Monk James...

Meetings of the St. Juliana Society for St. Vladimir's future clergy wives are often punctuated by laughter and animated conversation, and Monday evening's gathering at the residence of Fr. Chad and Mat. Thekla Hatfield was no exception. Lively guest Khouria Krista West, host of "The Opinionated Tailor" podcast, offered a...

Kodiak and Fairbanks, Alaska...Denver, Colorado...Orlando and Jacksonville, Florida...Cincinnati, Ohio...Worcester, Massachusetts...Charleston, South Carolina. By the end of this season of Great Lent, Chancellor/CEO The Very Rev. Dr. Chad Hatfield and The Very Rev. Dr. John Behr, dean of St. Vladimir's Seminary, will have visited parishes on both coasts and many points...

In keeping with St. Vladimir's Seminary's continuing emphasis on missions and outreach, SVOTS hosted this week's board meeting of the pan–Orthodox Missions Institute , which is housed on the campus of Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, MA. The Very Rev. Dr. Chad Hatfield, SVOTS chancellor/CEO and...

"St. Vladimir's Seminary has stepped up to the challenge recently set by the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) to provide our clergy with continuing education," said Dr. Paul Meyendorff, The Father Alexander Schmemann Professor of Liturgical Theology at the seminary. "We are working vigorously...

On Orthodox Education Day, 1993, a group of parishioners and friends of St. Mary Antiochian Orthodox Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts gathered at St. Vladimir's Seminary to perform Byzantine Chant sung in English. It was the first of what was to be many such concerts by the newly formed Boston Byzantine...

Alumnus The Rev. John Parker, chairperson of the Department of Evangelization for the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), recently interviewed The Very Rev. Dr. Chad Hatfield, St. Vladimir's Seminary chancellor/CEO, on the podcast "Lord, Send Me!" For the past few years, Fr. Chad has taught a missiology class in which...

The Byzantine Choir of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) chanted the Presanctified Liturgy at St. Vladimir's Three Hierarchs Chapel, with His Grace Bishop Nicholas of Brooklyn in attendance. SVOTS Chancellor/CEO The Very Rev. Dr. Chad Hatfield, along with the newly–ordained Antiochian seminarian Dn. Scott Miller, celebrated the service, which...