The Rev. Dn. Gregory Hatrak of SVS Press and Bookstore set up shop at major Orthodox Christian gatherings this summer.
By Deborah (Malacky) Belonick Our Dean, Fr. John Behr, warmly welcomed new seminarians to the campus for Orientation Week 2010 by conducting a prayer service and by centering his welcoming remarks around a line from the Gospel of John: "Father, the hour has come" (Jn 17:1). Reminding the freshman class...
Third-year seminarian and organist Ian Abodeely coordinated all of the music for the conference, incorporating the music of Bach, Dupre, Williams, Charpentier, Purcell, Byrd, and others. The services were sung using traditional Gregorian modes. (Read Ian's reflections in "Seminarians Speak.") The Antiochian Western Rite Vicariate oversees parishes and missions within...
For Academic year 2014–2015, St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, Yonkers, NY, will offer an exceptional opportunity to students enrolled in its Continuing Education course on Byzantine Chant. Besides benefiting from the expert instruction of renowned master chanter Eleftherios Eleftheriadis, students will be afforded unprecedented access to rehearsals and concert events...
Two prominent hierarchs have given their episcopal endorsement to a newly released volume of homilies by The Very Rev. Dr. John Behr, dean of St. Vladimir's. Both Archbishop Demetrios (Trakatellis), primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in America, and also Bishop Maxim (Vasiljevic) bishop of the Western American Diocese of...
[img_assist|nid=16232|title=|desc=Assembly of Bishops, 2013 Annual Meeting|link=none|align=right|width=300|height=209]Friday, October 24, 7:00 pm , Orthodox Christian Laity, Open Public Forum: Join in on an enlivened public discussion on: "The History and Future of the Assembly of Bishops and the Proposed Great and Holy Council in 2016." Featured speaker for the OCL Open Forum will be Alexei Krindatch, consultant to the Regional Planning Committee of the Assembly of Bishops. He will give insights into the work of that committee, as it develops a blueprint for a unified Orthodox Church in the USA.
Monday, October 27, 6:30pm, Annual Missions Night: Fr. Nicholas Andruchow, and his wife, Presbytera Merilyn, will present a free public lecture, “Changing the World: Transformation through Missions with Project Mexico and St. Innocent Orphanage as a Model.” They will recount heart-warming and heart-rending stories of the families and children they serve at Project Mexico and St. Innocent Orphanage, as they build homes and generate hope in Tijuana, Mexico. They will also speak about the transformation that occurs in missionaries and interns that serve. [img_assist|nid=16234|title=|desc=The children of St. Innocent Orphanage|link=none|align=right|width=300|height=224]
[img_assist|nid=16673|title=|desc=Metropolitan Hilarion speaks at St. Vladimir's Seminary|link=popup|align=left|width=350|height=288]On Saturday, November 8, 7:00 p.m., His Eminence The Most Reverend Hilarion (Alfeyev), metropolitan of Volokolamsk and chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations, will deliver a free and public lecture at St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary.
St. Vladimir’s Seminary Librarian Eleana Silk is delighted with Mr. David Jonas Bardin's recent donation to the Florovsky Library: a late 19th century 16” x 11½” volume, featuring 15 historic photographs of the Holy Land with original captions in English, Russian, and Greek. The cover is bound in olive wood...
"We're fully geared up to reach out to the wider Church this fall, with an array of lectures and events that will serve a broad spectrum of people," said Archpriest Dr. Chad Hatfield, Chancellor/CEO of St. Vladimir's. "Our campus will be buzzing with our annual 'Ed Day' homecoming, a heart-warming...