"Outside of God, all facts are just interpretations. Without a noetic experience, our culture is the way it is." This observation formed the basis for Dr. Herman Tristram Engelhardt's recent lecture at St. Vladimir's, delivered on 23 February 2014 and sponsored by SVOTS' student-run St. Ambrose Society , the seminary's...
PURCHASE TICKETS! LISTEN to the Ancient Faith Presents interview with Dr. Reeves and Dr. Bouteneff Attend the May 4 free, public lecture about the composer and his music View the New Yorker ad Read the Spring 2014 Life in Estonia article Two concerts devoted to the music of Estonian composer...
At the beginning of the Lenten season, The Very Rev. Dr. Chad Hatfield, SVOTS chancellor/CEO and the former dean of SVOTS' sister school St. Herman Theological Seminary , and The Rev. Dn. Evan Freeman (SVOTS '09), Yale University doctoral student in iconography, traveled to Kodiak, Alaska. The two were hosted...
Memory Eternal! The entire community of faculty, staff and students at St. Vladimir's Theological Orthodox Seminary (SVOTS) mourns the loss of our Board of Trustees Vice President and Vice Chairman, His Eminence The Most Reverend Philip (Saliba) , Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of All North America of the...
The Very Rev. Dr. Alexander Atty, a distinguished alumnus of the Class of 1979 at St. Vladimir's Seminary, reposed in the Lord early Sunday morning, March 23, 2014. Father Alexander was most recently the Dean and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of St. Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary in South Canaan, PA...
Visit the new Website The Father Georges Florovsky Library at St. Vladimir's Seminary has a new dedicated Website ( library.svots.edu) , thanks to the efforts of Librarian/Archivist Matthew Garklavs. "A dedicated library Website has been on our 'wish list' for many years now, but we never had the available time...
READ MORE about the Arvo Pärt Project at St. Vladimir's Seminary [img_assist|nid=15396|title=|desc=|link=url|url=http://arvopartproject.com/events|align=left|width=335|height=350] Order tickets for "Spirit in Sound and Space—A Conversation Inspired by Arvo Pärt"
On Thursday, June 12, 7 p.m, celebrated scholar and Eastern Catholic Churchman Archimandrite Robert Taft, SJ will be hosted by the 2014 Congress of the Society of Oriental Liturgy (SOL) during their annual meeting, and will present the keynote address. Father Taft's lecture, titled "Goodbye to All That: Swansong of an Old Academician," will be free and open to the public and will be held in the Seminary's The Metropolitan Philip Auditorium of The John G. Rangos Family Building. [img_assist|nid=15381|title=|desc=Fr. Robert Taft, offering the Schmemann Lecture in 2009|link=popup|align=right|width=350|height=263]
[img_assist|nid=14748|title=|desc=Practicum participants with Bishop Michael, 2013|link=none|align=left|width=300|height=200]Register now for this four–day program of intense liturgical training to be held from Sunday, June 22–Wednesday, June 25, 2014 on the campus of St. Vladimir's Seminary. H eld in conjunction with the Orthodox Church in America's Diaconal Vocations Program (DVP), this workshop is for deacons and lay diaconal candidates and will be supported by celebration of the Divine Liturgy and other services.
Seminary administrators, alumni hierarchs and clergy, and seminarians gathered at the St. Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Cathedral in Brooklyn, NY, last week to participate in funeral services for St. Vladimir's Seminary's Board of Trustees Vice President and Vice Chairman, His Eminence The Most Reverend Philip (Saliba) , archbishop of New York...