[img_assist|nid=7615|title=|desc=Metropolitan Kallistos blesses the loaves at Vigil.|link=none|align=right|width=300|height=406]Tonight, renowned Orthodox Christian author, teacher, and churchman, Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia, will deliver a free and public lecture on our campus. His presentation will be the keynote to commence the North American Conference of the Fellowship of Ss. Alban and Sergius , an Orthodox-Anglican dialogue that traces its beginnings to the early twentieth century. [img_assist|nid=7613|title=|desc=Metropolitan Jonah (left) and Metropolitan Kallistos together, after serving Vigial for the Feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos in Three Hierarchs Chapel|link=none|align=left|width=300|height=206]

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At the Divine Liturgy for the Feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos, our seminary community was honored to have three hierarchs serving: His Beatitude The Most Blessed Jonah, primate of the Orthodox Church in America, presiding; and His Eminence The Most Rev. Justinian, archbishop of Naro-Fominsk and administrator of...

Following the Divine Liturgy in celebration of Feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos, His Beatitude Metropolitan Jonah, primate of the Orthodox Church in America and president of the Board of Trustees of St. Vladimir's Seminary, was publicly honored by a committee of Orthodox Christians based in Russia. His Beatitude...

Recognizing the many gifts that Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware), bishop of Diokleia, has offered to the Orthodox Church and to Christians worldwide, the seminary Board of Trustees and faculty bestowed upon him an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree, during an academic convocation held on the Feast of the Nativity of the...

With an insightful, prophetic, and entertaining keynote, Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware), bishop of Diokleia and renowned churchman, inaugurated the North American Conference of the Fellowship of Ss. Alban and Sergius , an Orthodox-Anglican gathering which is meeting on our campus September 8–10. In his talk, titled "The Present and Future of...

Father John's faith informs his scholarly work and vice versa, so that in his life and work, Fr. John epitomizes the thought of St. John Chrysostom, the famed 4th-century preacher who spoke of the pastoral power of theology and words. Paraphrasing St. John in a recent sermon, Fr. John said...

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The first regular discuss[img_assist|nid=7800|title=|desc=ISD gathered at St. Vladimir's in fall 2010.|link=none|align=left|width=200|height=133]ion of Interseminary Dialogue (ISD)—a group comprised of eight seminaries in the New York Metro area (Jewish and Christian, "traditional" and "progressive")—will be hosted on our campus, Monday, September 19, from 7 p.m.–9 p.m. The dialogue is open to all of our seminarians, and the topic for the evening is "Vocation and Calling," part of this year's overall theme: Our Movements, Our Seminaries, Ourselves.

We invite the public to our seminary chapel, to venerate the extraordinary Hawaiian Myrrh-s[img_assist|nid=7812|title=|desc=Hawaiian Iveron Icon of the Mother of God|link=none|align=left|width=194|height=243]treaming Iveron Icon of the Mother of God. Our chapel clergy expect to receive the icon Tueday, October 11th, at 7 a.m.; and at 7:30 a.m., instead of daily Matins, they will celebrate a Molieben and Akathistos to this icon. The public is invited, both to attend the morning services, and also to venerate the icon in Three Hierarchs Chapel until 1:00 p.m. The following partial description of the icon and its history is taken from the Official website of the Eastern American and New York Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR): www.eadiocese.org. The full article may be found here .