The Story of Sydney’s Orthodox Café + Bookstore An Interview with Kimon Giannopoulos and John Varipatis By Virginia Nieuwsma In February of 2020, before the world knew that the COVID-19 tsunami was just around the corner, two members of the St. Stylianos parish in Sydney, Australia (Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of...

Saint Vladimir’s President Very Rev. Dr. Chad Hatfield visited multiple Orthodox communities in the “land down under” this winter, teaching, speaking, and strengthening the Seminary’s relationships there. Father Chad traveled to Australia in February for two weeks primarily to teach at St. Cyril’s Coptic Orthodox Theological Seminary in Sydney. He...

Father Alexander Schmemann did not approach liturgy as something for academic theologians to tinker with. He rather approached liturgy as a source for theology itself—the ontological condition for theology, in his words. I tell people that the rest of my graduate education was spent trying to get the number of the bus that hit me.

On Sunday, March 21, 2021, St. Vladimir’s Seminary Alumnus Dn. Phillip Beiner was ordained to the holy priesthood. His Eminence, Archbishop Alexander (Golitzin), presided over the ordination at St. George Orthodox Cathedral, Rossford, OH. Father Phillip, a priest of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) currently serves St. John the...

Prof. David Drillock St. Vladimir’s Summer Institute 2004 I grew up in Osceola Mills, a very small town in central Pennsylvania located midway between Penn State University and the Horseshoe Curve near Altoona. The church, St. Mary’s (Nativity of the Virgin), was one of the early churches brought over to...

Few in the West realize that the second-largest Orthodox Church in the world is in Romania, and fewer still know the remarkable story of her recent past. Now, SVS Press is giving English-speaking readers a chance to learn more about the central figure of the Romanian Church’s rebuilding: Patriarch Daniel...