[img_assist|nid=19876|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=350|height=234] CELEBRATE ST. VLADIMIR’S DAY! Please join us in celebrating the feast of our patron, the Holy and Great Prince Vladimir! RSVP by July 5 to events@svots.edu . VESPERS 5:00pm, with a BBQ TO FOLLOW* *Rain location: John G. Rangos Family Building Event sponsorships are always welcome! Download the flyer
St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary is still accepting students into its newly forming Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) cohort. Currently, the cohort consists of 7 priests, chaplains, and missionaries from four countries, and it can still accommodate 4 more students. “Building on the successes of the students in the first D.Min...
SVS Press is attending the conference, "Tradition, Secularization, Fundamentalism: Orthodox/Catholic Encounters." Every three years, Fordham's Orthodox Christian Studies Center sponsors and produces the Patterson Conference on Orthodox/Catholic Dialogue.
From June 13–18, 2016, the Very Reverend Dr. John Behr, dean of St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary in Yonkers, NY, accompanied by the Reverend Dr. Mardiros Chevian, dean of St. Nersess Armenian Seminary in Armonk, NY, was received by the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, His Holiness Karekin...
The Seminary’s Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) Cohort, Class of 2017, met on campus from June 19–25, 2016, for intensive study in two courses: “Ministry to the Sick and Dying” and “Ministry in a Secular Age.” For the greater part of the academic year Cohort members meet and study online, but...
After 29 years as a faculty member at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary , Professor Paul Meyendorff will be retiring from his teaching position there as of June 30, 2016. Meyendorff, who since 1997 has been the Alexander Schmemann Professor of Liturgical Theology at the Seminary, has worn many other...
On July 6, 2016, St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary sent $15,000 worth of theological books on a 7,000-mile journey to the Orthodox Patriarchal Ecclesiastical School of Makarios III in Nairobi, Kenya. The African seminary is the recipient of a tithe of St. Vladimir’s most recent #GivingTuesday Campaign, which took place...
Over the past decade, the Diaconal Liturgical Practicum has grown from small project designed to quickly train a few sorely needed deacons for the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) to an established annual effort that instructs altar servers, subdeacons, and deacons from several Orthodox Christian church jurisdictions. Begun at the...
“Our goal is to prepare newly ordained priests for the most challenging circumstances imaginable, and those certainly would include liturgically challenging situations,” remarked the Very Reverend Dr. John Behr, dean of St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary . “That’s why we’re restructuring our music and liturgics courses for our Master of...
Seminary Trustee Elsie Skvir Nierle fell asleep in the Lord on Sunday, July 17, 2016, just two weeks after her 89th birthday. She had served on St. Vladimir’s Seminary’s Board of Trustees from 1994–2005. Upon her retirement from board service, His Beatitude Metropolitan Herman (then president of the Board) and...