Need-Based Tuition Grants. Need-based tuition grants are available to all students who meet the financial aid eligibility requirements defined above (see Eligibility for Financial Aid ). St. Vladimir's currently administers two need-based tuition grants: Need-based grants for residential programs provide up to 50% of total eligible tuition in outright grant...
New York and Alaska are worlds apart, but an ongoing exchange between St. Vladimir's Seminary in Yonkers and St. Herman Seminary in Kodiak has helped shrink their cultural and geographical divides—at least in the sphere of Orthodox Education. Most recently, our chancellor, Archpriest Chad Hatfield, accompanied by two SVOTS seminarians...
Saturday, October 1, 2011 • Annual Orthodox Education Day When you come to our annua[img_assist|nid=5332|title=|desc=Seminarians Trevor Beckworth and James Parnell (left to right) stand ready to serve the crowds at the American food booth, during OED 2010.|link=none|align=left|width=232|height=348][img_assist|nid=5333|title=|desc=At OED 2010, the dance group "Caucasian Swords" electrified the crowd. (Photo: Kim Piotrowski)|link=none|align=right|width=311|height=234]l Orthodox Education Day (OED) this year, look for some surprises: bagpipes, a military honor guard, icon displaying soldiers and peacemakers, folk dancers wielding swords, special workshops to help our service men and women and the church communities ministering to them, and a campaign to send care packages to those deployed in the armed forces—all in conjunction with this year's theme: "For God and Country."
St. Vladimir's Seminary Press began as a response to the urgent need for English-language books about the Orthodox Christian faith, which arose in the mid-1950s. At that time, our multi-ethnic Orthodox student body were hearing lectures in English, but textbooks were available only in foreign languages, in particular, Russian and...
Below are podcasts from St. Vladimir's Seminary faculty and staff.
"The Bible is about life—all of life, real life. Not life as we imagine it, or even as we might live it, but life as it truly is whenever we enter into authentic life," began Fr. Harry Pappas as he commenced our seminary's annual public lenten retreat. "And we have...
This past Sunday, Professor Peter C. Bouteneff brought seven seminarians to St. Mark’s Syrian Orthodox Cathedral in Teaneck, N.J., at the invitation of H.E. Mor Cyril Aphrem Karim, archbishop and patriarchal vicar to the Archdiocese of the Syriac Orthodox Church for the Eastern United States. The visit was part of...