St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) raised over $250,000 to support seminarians during its fundraising campaigns over the fall and winter of 2018/2019. On November 1 and 2, 2018, SVOTS held its Fall Benefit and Theological Convocation to support the Seminary’s Tuition-Free Initiative , which offers fully-paid tuition to seminarians...

January 30, 2019 • Feast of the Three Hierarchs • On-campus St. Vladimir’s Seminary (SVOTS) celebrated an eventful Feast of the Three Hierarchs on its campus Wednesday. The day began with Divine Liturgy and concluded with the 36 th Annual Father Alexander Schmemann Lecture and Mid-Year Commencement. The day’s conclusion also marked the end of three-days of the Orthodox Church in America [OCA] and Anglican Church in North America [ACNA] dialogue, which was also hosted on campus. [img_assist|nid=29020|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=351|height=234]HIERARCHICAL DIVINE LITURGY ( View a photo gallery )

On Tuesday St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) featured one of its own, faculty member and alumnus Dn. Evan Freeman , in a special seminar. Dn. Evan’s talk, “Art and Liturgical Reform: Byzantine Eucharistic objects and the development of the Prothesis rite," was the first in a series of monthly...

[img_assist|nid=29033|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=300|height=388]It’s New York’s turn to experience Tenebrae: Music of Holy Week from East & West. After a performance in Washington D.C. , the St. Vladimir’s Seminary Chorale will bring the spectacular evening of music to New York City’s beautiful St. John Nepomucene Church on Friday, April 5. The concert takes its name from a candlelit Holy Week service from the Western Christian tradition ( tenebrae means “darkness” in Latin). The evening’s program will immerse listeners in the solemn Lenten journey to the cross and the empty tomb.

On Monday, the St. Juliana Society (SJS) welcomed to campus His Beatitude the Most Blessed Tikhon , archbishop of Washington, metropolitan of All America and Canada, and chair of St. Vladimir’s Seminary. His Beatitude met with the group, comprised of women seminarians and wives of seminarians, at the home of...

[img_assist|nid=29042|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=300|height=420] Registration for the webinar is now closed. Please check SVOTS.edu/events for information on future D.Min. webinars **** An opportunity to transform your ministry for the better might sound too good to be true, but that is exactly what St. Vladimir’s Seminary’s Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) program was set up to be. And its most recent graduates want you to see fruits of the D.Min. program for yourself.

Our campus turned into a film set this week, as a Russian TV crew produced a documentary about the history of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA). The crew, led by Archpriest Alexey Uminskiy, host of the popular Russian TV program "Orthodox Encyclopedia," shot extensive footage around our campus, especially...

[img_assist|nid=29085|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=300|height=388]In September of 1794, a group of ten monks from the Valaam Monastery in Russia arrived on Kodiak Island, Alaska to begin what would become one of the greatest missionary endeavors in the history of Orthodox Christianity . This year is the 225 th anniversary of that mission to North America, and St. Vladimir’s Seminary is co-sponsoring a special event with Mother of God Orthodox Church , Princeton, NJ to mark the occasion.

The board of the Orthodox Christian Leadership Initiative (OCLI) convened in Houston, TX in February to discuss the mission and future of OCLI and its work in the Orthodox Church. Sponsored by the Orthodox Vision Foundation and graciously hosted at The Saint Constantine School , the gathering allowed for fruitful...

4 March 2019 • On Campus On a wintry Monday, St. Vladimir’s Seminary welcomed dozens of guests to campus: His Grace Bishop Ignatije of Branichevo, the dean of the Orthodox theological seminary in Belgrade, Serbia ; Mother Christophora, the abbess of The Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration in Ellwood City, PA; and more than 40 others visiting for the Association of Professional Chaplains (APC) board certifications. [img_assist|nid=29058|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=350|height=258]Hierarch visit