With faith in Christ and hope in the resurrection, we share news of the repose of Rev. Dr. Thomas (Athanasios) Parthenakis of Erie, PA, who fell asleep in the Lord on Thursday, October 3, 2019 following a battle with cancer. Father Thomas was a professor of American history at Gannon...

5-6 October 2019 • On Campus His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon presided at services Saturday and Sunday as the Seminary community celebrated the Feast of the Glorification of St. Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow, Enlightener of the Aleuts, and Apostle to the Americas (October 6). The celebration began with festal All-Night Vigil at Three Hierarchs Chapel Saturday. At the Vigil, His Beatitude spoke about St. Innocent.

St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS), Yonkers, NY, and St. Nersess Armenian Seminary , Armonk, NY, are preparing to celebrate more than fifty years of collaboration on Friday, October 11. Those five decades include several milestones. A formal relationship between the two seminaries began in 1968, when negotiations with SVOTS...

Metropolitan Kallistos Ware’s modern classic, The Orthodox Way , is now available in a new edition from St. Vladimir’s Seminary (SVS) Press. The book—which has for decades served as a popular introduction to Orthodox Christianity for those outside Orthodoxy and deepened the faith of many already in the Church—is the...

St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) and St. Nersess Armenian Seminary , Armonk, NY, celebrated fifty years of collaboration with a special event Friday, October 11, on SVOTS’ campus. St. Vladimir’s & St. Nersess Seminaries: A Timeline of Collaboration The event began with Vespers at Three Hierarchs Chapel celebrated according...

His Eminence, Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) of Volokolamsk , chairman of the Department of External Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate and prolific writer and composer, visited St. Vladimir’s Seminary (SVOTS) Monday. His Eminence met with members of the Seminary community and discussed two of his monumental series published by St. Vladimir’s...

On Friday, November 1, the Syriac Orthodox seminarians studying at St. Vladimir's Seminary were invited to a special meeting with His Holiness, Moran Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, the patriarch of Antioch and all the East of the Syriac Orthodox Church (SOC). His Holiness hosted the seminarians at the Mor Aphrem...

Special guest Michelle Moujaes with Faithtree Resources visited the Seminary’s St. Juliana Society (SJS) Monday evening. Moujaes is the founder of Faithtree, a pan-Orthodox group of clergy and lay people from diverse backgrounds and professions who have developed Orthodox materials to aid in ministry. On Monday, she gave her presentation...

The members of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) will gather at the Chancery for their Fall Regular Session from Tuesday, November 12 through Friday, November 15, 2019. In addition to the address of His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon and the other normal agenda items...

Learn more about St. Vladimir’s Seminary’s 2019 #GivingTuesday Campain St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) is partnering with a recent graduate this Giving Tuesday to benefit Orthodox Christian faithful in Uganda. The Seminary will tithe 10% of the funds raised on Giving Tuesday, December 3, to its select non-profit partner...