On Friday, January 13, 2017, Archpriest John Behr, dean and professor of Patristics at St. Vladimir’s Seminary, presented his inaugural lecture as holder of the Metropolitan Kallistos Chair in Orthodox Theology and assumed his position as full professor at the Amsterdam Centre for Orthodox Theology (ACOT) in the Vrije Universiteit...
[img_assist|nid=21866|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=179|height=269]On Thursday, February 9, 2017, Archpriest John Erickson, professor emeritus and former dean of St. Vladimir’s Seminary, will receive the Washington Theological Consortium’s (WTC) Ecumenism Award during an ecumenical event held annually in Washington, D.C.: the “Prayer Service for Christian Unity.” Father John will also present the 9 th Annual Figel Address on Ecumenism , this year titled, “What Divides, What Unites? Shifting Perceptions in Ecumenical Relations.”[img_assist|nid=21826|title=|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=200|height=70]
Over Winter Break 2017 three SVOTS seminarians participated in an IOCC Action Team that helped rebuild homes in New Orleans, an area devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005: Dn. Andrew Honoré, Evan LeDoux, and Antwian (Anthony) Davis. Seminarian Davis shares his experience ministering—andbeing ministered to!—during his one week adventure in...
In mid-January 2017, Archpriest Chad Hatfield, seminary president, and Deacon Gregory Hatrak, director of Marketing and Operations at SVS Press, traveled to Moscow, Russia, to attend a formal presentation of a recently released press title, Patriarch Kirill in His Own Words, in the presence of several honored guests and local...
On the evening of January 20, 2017, priest and famed composer Fr. Ivan Moody shared his thoughts on the past, present, and future of Orthodox music, during a public conversation with faculty from St. Vladimir’s Seminary: Robin Freeman , director of Music, and Harrison Russin , lecturer in Liturgical Music...
29 January 2017 • In Memoriam • Matushka Juliana Schmemann [img_assist|nid=21956|title=|desc=Matushka Juliana Schmemann (October 6, 1923–January 29, 2017)|link=none|align=left|width=300|height=380]Matushka Juliana Schmemann, a lifelong educator in New York City girls’ schools and former headmistress of the Spence School, died on Sunday, January 29, at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, where she had been in residence since the fall. She was 93. Matushka Juliana was born to a family of White Russian émigrés and was raised and educated in France. In 1951 she and her husband, Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann, moved to New York, where Matushka Juliana began a long teaching career at the Chapin School, the Spence School, and the Brearley School.
In a show of solidarity to protect the rights of the unborn, students, administrators, and alumni from St. Vladimir’s Seminary joined in the 44th annual March for Life in the nation’s capital. The theme of this year’s March, “The Power of One,” drew hundreds of thousands of supporters and spawned...
When Dr. Lewis Patsavos delivered the 34th Annual Father Alexander Schmemann Memorial Lecture on the topic, “Reflections of a Canonist,” he urged both a holistic approach to the study of the church canons and a living application of them. Theology, he reminded the audience, cannot be isolated from spirituality, or...
St. Vladimir’s Seminary recently launched a program that offers training for readers, choir conductors, and choir members in local parish settings. Called “Revitalizing Parish Music,” the program creates tailor-made solutions to typical problems experienced by church choirs and choir directors. “St. Vladimir’s has always striven to express the beauty of...
[img_assist|nid=22026|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=300|height=300]We are pleased to announce an international conference to be held from May 1-4, 2017 in the heart of New York City’s vibrant Lincoln Center music scene: “Arvo Pärt : Sounding the Sacred.” This event will bring together scholars from diverse fields (music, theology, sacred acoustics/sound studies, architecture, religious studies, philosophy), as well as artists experienced in the performance and recording of Pärt’s music, to create a unique forum for the exchange of ideas, research, practices and creativity on the topics of sound and the sacred . The event is hosted by the Sacred Arts Initiative and the Arvo Pärt Project at St.