In October of this year, nearly thirty seminarians from an evangelism class at St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers (Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York), visited SVOTS for Vespers, a refectory dinner, and a lecture by The Very Rev. Dr. Chad Hatfield, chancellor/CEO. In a reciprocal goodwill gesture, the new rector...
View Oca.org's photo gallery of the service (Photos: Roman Ostash) Memory Eternal! On Sunday at St. Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Cathedral of Brooklyn, New York, a Trisagion Service was offered for His Beatitude Patriarch Ignatius IV (Hazim) of Antioch and All the East. His Beatitude reposed in the Lord on December...
View the Gala photo gallery (Photos: G. Hatrak) A recent gala hosted at the Estonian House on 34th Street in New York launched a project that promises to bring one of the most famed living Estonians in the world—composer Arvo Pärt — to Manhattan for an unprecedented concert–lecture series. The...
On Wednesday, December 12, several SVOTS students traveled to the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) to participate in the discussion "Dialoguing Beyond Our Dialogue." The group Interseminary Dialogue (ISD) , an informal organization composed of eight different Jewish and Christian seminaries in the New York area, sponsored the event. It was...
St. Vladimir's Seminary Press got its start in the 1960s with the release of just a few faculty titles, and has grown enormously over the years to become the largest English–language publisher of Orthodox Christian books, with approximately five hundred titles. We are wrapping up a busy year in which...
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After wrapping up a busy semester of teaching and travel, The Alexander Schmemann Professor of Liturgical Theology Dr. Paul Meyendorff traveled to Helsinki, Finland, to represent St. Vladimir's Seminary and the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) at the fifth meeting of the organization, Quality in Orthodox Theological Education, or QuOTE...
The ordination took place at Holy Trinity Orthodox Church in New Britain, CT , the Parnell family's home parish and Fr. James' place of assignment for parish service during his final year of studies. Clergy celebrating with Archbishop Nikon included the parish rector, The Very Rev. David Koles; The Very...
On Saturday, December 29, 2012, The Very Rev. Paul Shafran (SVOTS ’1945) celebrated his 65th anniversary of ordination to the Holy Priesthood by presiding at the Divine Liturgy in Three Hierarchs Chapel at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Seminary, his alma mater, surrounded by family, friends, and fellow clergy. Father Paul, who...