His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah, primate of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) and a St. Vladimir's alumnus (MDiv '85, MTh '88), was recently awarded an honorary doctorate from Nashotah House, a seminary of the Episcopal Church, during the school's fall convocation. The academic convocation exhibited, in many respects, the recent...

**Registration is now closed. Please visit SVOTS.edu/events over the next several months for information about next year's Diaconal Liturgical Practicum. [img_assist|nid=29071|title=|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=350|height=453]The 13 th Annual Diaconal Liturgical Practicum of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) will be held July 16–19, 2019 at St. Seraphim Cathedral in Santa Rosa, CA. The four-day program will offer intense practical liturgical training for deacons and lay diaconal candidates. Supper, prayer, and an opening session will launch the Practicum at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, July 16. The last day of the Practicum will conclude with hierarchical Divine Liturgy and feast day lunch.

Seminarians from St. Vladimir’s, St. Tikhon’s, and Holy Cross seminaries gathered on the campus of St. Vladimir’s Seminary March 8-11 for the Spring 2019 Conference of the Orthodox Inter-Seminary Movement (OISM). Founded in the 1960s and revived in 2003, the OISM fosters fellowship and cooperation among Orthodox seminary and theology...

With faith in Christ and in the hope of resurrection, we share the news of the repose of our alumnus, Leonard W. Soroka, who fell asleep in the Lord on Sunday, March 10 after a difficult battle with cancer. Born in 1950, the son of Archpriest Vladimir and Matushka Olga...

On the first two days of Great Lent, the community of St. Vladimir’s Seminary entered into its annual Lenten Retreat. On Clean Monday and Tuesday, classes were cancelled and students were encouraged to practice silence. The community entered the chapel together several times each day for a fuller cycle of...

Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev’s Orthodox Christianity, Vol. V is now available through St. Vladimir’s Seminary (SVS) Press, marking the completion of the monumental Orthodox Christianity series . The five-volume series is a detailed and systematic exposition of the history, canonical structure, doctrine, social and moral teaching, liturgical services, and spiritual life...

[img_assist|nid=29091|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=300|height=300]Explore matter, materials, and materiality in Byzantine art and culture; delve into topics including the Eucharist, relics, icons, church decoration, jewelry, and more as you experience Byzantine Materiality , a conference of the Sacred Arts Initiative , May 8 through 11 at St. Vladimir’s Seminary (SVOTS).

“Peace,” “unity,” “togetherness.” This past weekend these recurrent themes permeated the extraordinary visit of the relics of our seminary’s patron saint, the Holy Great Prince Vladimir, Equal-to-the-Apostles, to our campus chapel. Orthodox Christians from near and far, and from various ecclesi and ethnic backgrounds, came to bow before the ornate...

With faith in Christ and hope in the resurrection, we share news of the repose of Seminary Alumnus and noted Church musician Walter Shymansky, who fell asleep in the Lord on Sunday, March 31, 2019. Born on July 29, 1928, the son of Archpriest Walter (later Bishop Peter) and Matushka...

[img_assist|nid=29110|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=300|height=300]Giving thanks to God, the trustees, faculty, and students of St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) invite the public to the Commencement of the Class of 2019 , Saturday, May 18. Ceremonies will begin at 2:00 p.m., with a “Prayer of Thanksgiving” in Three Hierarchs Chapel, followed at 2:30 p.m. by Commencement Exercises in the Metropolitan Philip Auditorium of the John G. Rangos Family Building. The commencement speaker this year is Archpriest Alexander Rentel, SEOD, chancellor of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA). About the 2019 Commencement Speaker