On Monday morning, the St. Vladimir’s Seminary community celebrated the feast of the Seminary’s patron, Holy and Great Prince Vladimir, Equal of the Apostles . The celebration of Divine Liturgy was especially blessed by the presence of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon , archbishop of Washington, metropolitan of All America and...

The Very Reverend Steven John Belonick reposed in the Lord Jesus Christ on August 7, 2019, after an extended illness, acute myeloid leukemia. Father Steven, who was an alumnus of St. Vladimir’s Seminary and served as the Seminary’s former Dean of Students and Chaplain, was 67 years old. Born October...

With faith in Christ and hope in the resurrection, we share news of the repose of Seminary Alumnus Very Rev. John J. Matusiak. Father John passed away on August 15, the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos, following a battle with bladder and spinal cancer. Father John was pastor...

The In Trust Center for Theological Schools has awarded St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) a $10,000 matching grant for the Seminary’s Institute of Sacred Arts (ISA). The Seminary received the grant August 19, 2019. The funds for the In Trust Center Resource Grant are supported by the Lilly Endowment...

[img_assist|nid=29260|title=|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=350|height=453]For fifty years, St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) and St. Nersess Armenian Seminary have worked together to help build up the Body of Christ. This October, celebrate with us this milestone of fifty years of collaboration! An evening of events at St. Vladimir’s Seminary on Friday, October 11 includes:

St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) has opened the 2019 edition of the annual St. Matthias Merit Scholarship Essay Contest. The competition is a small part of the school’s ongoing efforts to help its students afford the costs of theological education and formation. The essay contest is open to current...

St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) welcomed twenty-two new seminarians to its campus Monday for the first day of the 2019-2020 Academic Year. The incoming class hails from three countries—the United States, Canada, and India—and twelve different jurisdictions. Orthodox Church in America (5)=22.5% Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America...

The beginning of the new academic year is always an exciting time at the Seminary. This year we are welcoming twenty-two new seminarians. They are from the United States, Canada, and India, which means a total of eight countries are represented in this year’s student body. READ: Seminary welcomes 22...

Saint Vladimir’s Seminary (SVS) Press has released On the Ecclesiastical Mystagogy by Saint Maximus the Confessor (c. 580-662). The new book, the latest title in SVS Press’s highly-praised Popular Patristic Series (PPS), features the original Greek text of St. Maximus’ work along with an English translation by Jonathan J. Armstrong...

After more than thirty years of faithful service in Christ to St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS), Eleana Silk is retiring from her position as librarian of the Seminary’s Father Georges Florovsky Library . "So many students, so many graduating classes, the internet and library database have helped to catalog...