As the holder of the Donohue Chair at the Pontifical Oriental Institute for the 2014-15 academic year, Dr. Paul Meyendorff, St. Vladimir's Father Alexander Schmemann Professor of Liturgical Theology, traveled to Rome, Italy on March 19–28, 2015. The Oriental Institute, part of the Gregorian University, offers graduate degrees in Eastern...

On April 16, 2015, the "Live Ideas" festival sponsored every year by New York Live Arts featured the life and work of famed Orthodox composer Arvo Pärt. Renowned musician Laurie Anderson, the festival's curator, enlisted the Arvo Pärt Project at St. Vladimir's Seminary to help her plan and organize three...

On April 29, 2015, Dr. Paul Meyendorff, The Fr. Alexander Schmemann Professor of Liturgical Theology, participated in a colloquium on Orthodox-Catholic relations at Seton Hall University, in South Orange, NJ. Professor Meyendorff delivered a lecture on a 2010 common statement issued by the North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation . The...

Immediately following Commencement, St. Vladimir's Seminary hosted t he 88th meeting of the North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation on June 2–4, 2015. The Consultation, this year celebrating its 50th anniversary, continued its current work on an agreed statement on the role of the laity, focusing primarily on the implications of...

Very Rev. Dr. Alexander Rentel From Monday, June 15, to Wednesday, June 17, 2015, Archpriest Alexander Rentel, assistant professor of Canon Law, accompanied His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon, president and board chairman of St. Vladimir’s Seminary, to Constantinople for a meeting between the Executive Committee of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox...

From June 17-24, 2015, Dr. Paul Meyendorff , The Father Alexander Schmemann Professor of Liturgical Theology at St. Vladimir's, attended the inaugural meeting of the new Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches (WCC). Held at the Caraiman Monastery in Busteni, Romania, t he meeting brought together...

Dr. Peter Bouteneff, St. Vladimir's professor of Systematic Theology, has written the September 2015 cover feature for BBC Music, the world's biggest-selling classical music magazine. The issue, dedicated to famed Estonian composer and Orthodox Christian, Arvo Pärt, hit the newstands in early August, with copies available in the United States...

he Very Reverend Eugen J. Pentiuc, St. Vladimir's professor of Scripture and Semitic Languages, was invited by École biblique et archéologique française to spend six weeks in Jerusalem in the summer of 2015 completing his work for La Bible en ses traditions / The Bible in Its Traditions (or B.E.S.T)...

From July 30 through August 10, 2015, Hierodeacon Herman (Majkrzak), director of Chapel Music and lecturer in Liturgical Music at St. Vladimir's, was a guest of the Diocese of Alaska of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA). With the blessing of the Right Reverend David, Bishop of Sitka and Alaska...

Very Rev. Dr. Alexander Rentel On Saturday, September 5, 2015, the the Very Reverend Dr. Alexander Rentel , assistant professor of Canon Law and Byzantine Studies, represented St. Vladimir’s Seminary at the canonization of a new Serbian saint, St. Sebastian of San Francisco and Jackson. His Holiness Patriarch Irinej of...