[img_assist|nid=16015|title=|desc=Bishop Alexander, speaking at 2012 St. Vladimir's Commencement|link=popup|align=left|width=200|height=300] The Rt. Rev. Alexander (Golitzin), bishop of Toledo and the Bulgarian Diocese, Orthodox Church in America (OCA), will present the second annual Father John Meyendorff Memorial Lecture, 7 p.m., Sunday, September 14, 2014, at the seminary. His Grace has chosen the topic: "Force Your Mind to Descend into the Heart": Some Resemblances between Byzantine Hesychasm and Merkavah Mysticism.”

[img_assist|nid=16044|title=|desc=Dr. Theokritoff speaking at the launch of SVOTS' "Go Green" initiative in 2007|link=url|url=http://www.svots.edu/content/go-green-initiative-launched|align=left|width=300|height=156] Dr. Elizabeth Theokritoff will present a free, public lecture titled “Cosmic Liturgy and the Problems of Human ‘Priesthood’ ” on Sunday, August 31, 2014, 7 p.m., at the seminary. Sponsored by the St. Herman’s Society for Orthodox Ecology, the lecture will be preceded by a tree-planting ceremony on the campus grounds at 6 p.m., and an Akathist service in Three Hierarchs Chapel, beginning at 6:15 p.m. The lecture itself will be held in the Metropolitan Philip Auditorium of the John G. Rangos Family Building, and a public reception will follow.

The Very Rev. Macarius Targonsky reposed in the Lord Wednesday, June 25, 2014.

For four days at the start of summer, deacons and potential deacons converged once again on the campus of St. Vladimir's Seminary for intense liturgical training, during the 8th Annual Diaconal Liturgical Practicum. Held in conjunction with the Orthodox Church in America's (OCA) Diaconal Vocations Program (DVP) , the Practicum...

Meet the D.Min. Faculty and read about the D.Min. program at St. Vladimir's Read about the the 8th Diaconal Liturgical Practicum. Traveling from around the United States and Canada, eight members of the 2017 Cohort for the Doctor of Ministry Program from three Orthodox jurisdictions gathered on the Yonkers campus...

On Saturday August 7th, seminarians, children, spouses, faculty and staff worked together on a campus clean up. The clean-up part of a very hot day began at 9 a.m. outside the North Dorm where a crowd gathered to collect tools and receive instructions. The first task was laying new mulch...

Imagine walking in the footsteps of Jesus and his followers. Now imagine uncovering firsthand the very buildings they would have seen and discovering objects they would have used in their daily lives, including domestic wares and implements for fishing. “Such were the experiences of St. Vladimir’s seminarian Elizabeth Siniscalchi and...

His Eminence Archbishop Joseph has been elected Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of All North America of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese, by the Holy Synod of Antioch, meeting in Balamand, Lebanon on Thursday, July 3, 2014. Since its inception in 1938, St. Vladimir's Seminary has trained nearly 175...

The Father Alexander Schmemann Professor of Liturgical Theology at St. Vladimir's Seminary, Dr. Paul Meyendorff, recently traveled to Antiochian Village in Bolivar, PA, to address the 18th Biennial Clergy Symposium of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America. His Eminence Metropolitan Joseph, the Archdiocese's newly elected leader, presided over...

The Very Rev. John Meyendorff (February 17, 1926 – July 22, 1992) served as the Dean of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary from March 1984 until June 30, 1992. He died that following July 22 in Montreal , Canada, due to pancreatic cancer . A leading theologian of the Orthodox...