Second-year Seminarian Burke Vair was ordained as "Deacon Mark" on November 3, 2013, by His Grace Nicholas (Ozone), auxiliary bishop for Brooklyn and assistant to His Eminence Philip, archbishop of New York and metropolitan of All North America, of the Self-Ruled Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America. The ordination...
On this 31st Anniversary of Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann’s death, the entire community of St.Vladimir's remembers his life, his work, and his influence on the Church in America. Honoring his memory, the Summer/Fall 2014 issue of Jacob's Well was dedicated to his legacy and featured the theme "Thanksgiving, Salvation, and Eternal...
Though the first of our four engagements was not until early November, we spent September and October carefully preparing an extensive repertoire for what proved to be a strenuous but rewarding conclusion to the semester.
St. Vladimir's Seminary is offering its second public continuing education course in Byzantine Music, beginning Monday, January 27, and ending Monday, April 7, 2014, in collaboration with The Axion Estin Foundation of New Rochelle, NY. Eleftherios Eleftheriadis, the highly regarded Protopsaltis of St. Nicholas Shrine Church in Flushing, NY, who...
The formation of a seminarian happens both inside and outside the classroom. Over the course of the 2013–2014 winter break, three St. Vladimir's seminarians participated in the first-ever International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC) Seminary Action Team. Together with junior seminarian Sara Staff and middler Tor Vergard Svane, I traveled to...
Khouria Frederica Mathewes-Green , popular Orthodox Christian speaker, author, and pro life advocate, made our Seminary's participation in the 41st March for Life in Washington, D.C. very special this year. Not only did she travel with St. Vladimir's Seminary's contingent to the nation's capital for the March—which annually marks the...
Crossing the Atlantic Ocean without leaving his office, St. Vladimir's Assistant Professor of Homiletics and Rhetoric The Rev. Dr. J. Sergius Halvorsen presented a paper at a conference hosted by St. Tikhon's Orthodox University in Moscow, Russia. Founded in 1992, the University has hosted an annual theological conference for 24...
His Beatitude Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania, primate of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania, paid an informal visit to the seminary campus just on the eve of the Feast of the Three Hierarchs. During his short but impressive stay, he conversed comfortably and easily at an...
Hierarchs of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) presided over the ordinations of two third-year seminarians in a joyous celebration marking The Feast of the Three Great Hierarchs
Nielsen Professor of Late Antiquity and Byzantine Christian History at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Byzantine Christian Studies at Columbia University. Father John noted that Lossky’s book is “enduringly fascinating,” and that its publication signaled a significant moment in Orthodox Christian theology. He also emphasized the organic and conciliar...