On Sunday, July 28, 2018, SVOTS Alumnus Dn. Gregory Erik Potter was ordained to the Holy Priesthood. Fr. Gregory was ordained by the hand of His Grace Alexander, bishop of Ottawa, Eastern Canada, and Upstate New York of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America. The ordination took place...
Alumnus Protopresbyter Joseph Kwame Ayete Labi (’80) was there when Ghana was “looking for the Orthodox Church” in the 1970s. After Fr. Kwame and a group of seekers met Fr. John Meyendorff and Fr. Thomas Hopko , among others, at the 1974 World Council of Churches in Ghana’s capital city...
Three SVOTS alumni were among the retired military chaplains awarded the Military Pectoral Cross during the Orthodox Church in America (OCA)’s 19th All-American Council (AAC) in Saint Louis, MO in July. His Beatitude, The Most Blessed Tikhon, archbishop of Washington and metropolitan of All America and Canada, presented crosses at...
St. Vladimir’s Seminary (SVOTS) Alumnus Very Rev. Michael Westerberg (’75) has been elevated to the dignity of mitered archpriest. Fr. Michael received the miter from the hand of The Most Reverend Nikon , archbishop of Boston, New England, and the Albanian Archdiocese (Orthodox Church in America) during Divine Liturgy Sunday...
Recent SVOTS Alumnus Dn. Daniel Greeson has been ordained to the Holy Priesthood. The ordination took place at St. Anne's Orthodox Church , Oak Ridge, TN on Saturday, August 25, 2018. Priest Daniel was ordained by the hand of The Most Reverend Alexander , archbishop of Dallas, the South and...
Rev. (Maj.) Sean Levine has answered the call to serve time and time again. His journey in ministering to others has taken him everywhere from Kentucky to South Korea, Afghanistan, and Iraq, and from Fort Knox to St. Vladimir’s Seminary (SVOTS). Throughout that journey, as priest and military chaplain, Fr...
The following is the text of the 2014 Fr. Alexander Schmemann Memorial Lecture, given by The Very Rev. Dr. John A. McGuckin at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary on January 31, 2014. Vladika, Fathers, sisters and brothers present here tonight on the occasion of this convocation, let me begin by...
Alumni Priests Peter Robichau (’10) and Andrew Cannon (’16) have launched efforts to assist parishioners of Saint Basil Orthodox Church in Wilmington, NC who have been left in need in the wake of a direct hit from Hurricane Florence on September 14, 2018. Fr. Peter and Fr. Andrew were recently...
The musical artistry of Alumnus Priest David Lee Bozeman is the subject of a recent feature interview in The Living Church, a biweekly magazine of the Anglican Communion. The interview with Fr. David, “Of Majesty and Mystery,” is also featured on the cover of the October 21, 2018 edition of...
A homily delivered in the Three Hierarchs Chapel at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary on the Feast of the Meeting of the Lord in the Temple and Zacchaeus Sunday (Sunday, February 2, 2014). Today, as we celebrate the meeting of Christ and the righteous Simeon and Anna, in the temple...