SVOTS Alumnus Dn. George Katrib has been ordained to the Holy Priesthood. The ordination took place at St. George Orthodox Christian Church, Houston, TX on Sunday, November 11, 2018. Priest George was ordained by the hand of His Grace BASIL , bishop of Wichita and Mid-America (Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church...
Alumnus Priest Chris Moore (M.Div., ’18) has been spending time in South Korea since he graduated from St. Vladimir’s Seminary, continuing to carry the zeal for evangelism that brought him to SVOTS. Fr. Chris, Matushka Jen, and their two young sons, Andrew and Gideon, are in the process of finalizing...
I am surely not the only male convert to Orthodoxy who was initially surprised to discover how central the balance of the masculine and the feminine is to our faith and spiritual life. To some that may seem counter-intuitive in a church with a male priesthood with lots of facial...
During the final few months of 2018, the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church ordained two priests and three deacons in North America—all graduates of St. Vladimir’s Seminary. On October 23, Subdeacon Kuriakose (Alex) Abraham (M.Div., ’16) was ordained to the Holy Diaconate by the hand of His Grace Metropolitan Youhanon Mar...
As a proud Texan, it is more than a little ironic that my daughter has a New York birth certificate. Having spent all of our married life in Texas, my wife and I would have gladly welcomed our daughter before we moved to New York to attend seminary. However, as...
In the latest edition of Caring for the Human Spirit Magazine , SVOTS Alumna and Board Certified Chaplain Clio Pavlantos writes about her experience as one of the first outpatient chaplains in the long history of New York’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK). Pavlantos’s reflection, “The Role of Self-Care...
Archpriest John Erickson , professor emeritus of Church History and former dean of St. Vladimir's Seminary (2002-2007), was presented with the prestigious Johannes Quasten Award by The Catholic University of America's School of Theology and Religious Studies. Fr. John was recognized for excellence in scholarship and leadership in Religious Studies...
Troost Avenue is the symbol of generations of racism and poverty in Kansas City, Missouri. It’s also the street you’ll find a place offering an Orthodox Christian approach to healing: Reconciliation Services , a faith-based nonprofit founded by St. Mary of Egypt Orthodox Church . The work of the nonprofit—which...
Recent St. Vladimir’s Seminary (SVOTS) graduate Dimitrios Nikiforos is now Hierodeacon Aetios! Hierodeacon Aetios was tonsured and ordained by the hand of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at St. George’s Cathedral, Istanbul, Turkey on Sunday of Orthodoxy weekend. His All-Holiness tonsured Hierodeacon Aetios into the monastic life at Vespers on...
Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen. And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching...