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...
St. Vladimir’s Seminary (SVOTS) Alumnus Dn. Kuriakose (Alex) Abraham has joined the ranks of the Holy Priesthood of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (MOSC). Priest Kuriakose was ordained March 30, 2019 by the hand of His Grace Metropolitan Zachariah Mar Nicholovos at Sts. Baselios & Gregorios Orthodox Church, Plainfield, NJ...
Several St. Vladimir’s Seminary (SVOTS) alumni lent their voices to a performance by the Clergy Choir of the Carolinas Deanery in Edenton, North Carolina. The Carolinas Deanery of the Diocese of the South of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) held its spring retreat in Edenton March 21 through April...
The woman poured precious oil of myrrh upon thine awesome and royal head, O Christ our God. —Matins of Holy Wednesday, ode eight I have found David my servant: with my holy oil have I anointed him. —Psalm 88:20 Among the righteous of the Old Testament, few shine more brightly...
Seminary Alumnus and faculty member Very Rev. Dr. Daniel Findikyan is now Bishop Daniel of the Armenian Church. Bishop Daniel was consecrated May 12, 2019 by His Holiness Karekin II, the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, at Holy Etchmiadzin, Armenia. The episcopal ordination follows Bishop Findikyan’s election in...
On Sunday, June 2, 2019, St. Vladimir’s Seminary (SVOTS) Alumnus Dn. Stefan Djoric was ordained to the holy priesthood. His Grace Bishop Irinej , a fellow SVOTS alumnus (’82), presided over Sunday’s Divine Liturgy and ordination at Holy Resurrection Serbian Orthodox Church in Steubenville, Ohio. “When I was in elementary...