St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) faculty, staff, and new and returning students marked the beginning of the 2023 Fall Semester on Thursday, August 24, with a Moleben (Prayer Service) for the Beginning of a New Academic Year. Thirty students are beginning their first year of studies in their respective...

President of St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS), The Very Rev. Dr Chad Hatfield traveled to Sydney, Australia last month to teach in-person intensives for a hybrid summer course on missiology at St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological College (SAGOTC). He was also invited by Archbishop Makarios, primate of the Greek...

In keeping with an annual tradition, the primate of the OCA His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon visited St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) last week to celebrate the Feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos and to mark the beginning of the academic year with the seminary community. On Thursday evening...

The St Vladimir’s Seminary community was blessed with a hierarchical visit from His Eminence Archbishop Daniel of Chicago and the Midwest (OCA), for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross. His Eminence arrived on Wednesday, September 13, and presided over the Festal Vigil that evening and the Divine Liturgy...

Students, faculty, staff, and community members gathered in person and online on Sep. 12, 2023, to hear scholar and SVS Press author, Dr Paul Gavrilyuk, give a special talk on the contrasting leadership styles of two formational leaders of St Vladimir’s Seminary, Fr Georges Florovsky and Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann. In...

Judy and Dan Braun have been married for 47 years, and have been blessed with 3 kids and 6 grandkids. Dan’s father, Fr Jon Braun, is a retired Antiochian priest. Santa Barbara, California is their hometown and has been the home base for Dan’s commercial real estate investment business since...

Holy Trinity Seminary in Jordanville, NY celebrated the 75th anniversary of its founding over the weekend of September 15-17, 2023. On Saturday, Sept. 16, Assistant Professor of Liturgical Theology, the Rev. Dn Dr Vitaly Permiakov presented a talk at the public program “The Orthodox Christian Seminary in the 21st Century,”...

With faith in Christ and hope in the resurrection, we share the news of the repose of St Vladimir’s Seminary alumnus James Loxley Compton (M.A.’10), who fell asleep in the Lord on September 22, 2023 at the age of 40, in his home in Monroeville, AL. James was born on...

On Thursday, September 28, His Eminence Metropolitan Saba, primate of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America (AOCANA), celebrated the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy at Three Hierarchs Chapel on the campus of St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS). His Eminence made his first official visit to SVOTS at the invitation...

The St Vladimir’s Seminary community was blessed with a hierarchical visit from His Grace, Bishop Andrei of Cleveland (Romanian Episcopate, OCA), for the weekend of October 7-8. His Grace presided over Vigil on Saturday evening and the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy the following day in Three Hierarchs Chapel. During the Liturgy...