Like many of our alumni, Archpriest Kirill Sokolov (M.Div. 2007) holds down a full-time job while contributing hundreds of hours per year to church service. Weekends and church holy days he’s serving as Associate Priest at Holy Trinity Cathedral in San Francisco ; but during weekdays, students call him “Dr...
Our alumnus, Priest Gregory Brent Gilbert (M.A. in Theology, 2004), presiding priest at Ss. Mary Magdalene and Markella Greek Orthodox Church , Darlington, Maryland, was featured in a cover story of The Baltimore Sun , June 24, 2017. The article tells of Fr. Gregory’s conversion to the Orthodox Christian faith...
Psalm 137 is a brutal psalm. To some, it may sound more like an SEC fight song gone wrong. How on earth are we to get “good news” out of a psalm that ends talking about the murder of children? Why on earth would anyone sing this psalm as part...
The National Boy Scout Jamboree , held July 19–July 28, 2017, drew more than 35,000 scouts from across the country (and globe) to West Virginia, for training, service, and loads of fun—and our Alumnus, Archpriest Eric Tosi (M.Div., 1996), played a major role in that hugely rewarding effort. Father Eric...
If you know the music of Arvo Pärt, chances are you like it. A lot. In fact, chances are, you connect with it on a very deep level, perhaps a “spiritual” one. But love him or not, the fact is that Arvo Pärt is the most widely performed living composer...
Alumna Nancy Holloway is a retired chaplain and adjunct professor from Berea College. She has a Master of Divinity degree from Yale Divinity School, and she is the first woman to earn a Doctor of Ministry degree from St. Vladimir’s Seminary (Class of ’91). She attends St. Andrew Orthodox Church...
This week, as our nation commemorates the terrorist attack of 9/11 and reels from the tremendous economic, ecological, and emotional destruction wreaked across the southern part of the U.S. from both Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma , one particular alumnus needs to be recognized: Father Raphael Barberg, who is Associate...
On Sunday, October 8, 2017, in the Orthodox Church of Ss. Peter and Paul in the city of Siemiatycze, a historic event for the Orthodox regional community as well as the entire Orthodox Church in Poland occurred. Archimandrite Warsonofiusz (Doroszkiewicz), became Bishop of Siemiatycze. His was the first episcopal ordination...
On Sunday, October 22, 2017, the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) awarded our Alumnus, Protopresbyter Leonid Kishkovsky , the miter , in recognition of his many years of service to the Church of Our Lady of Kazan, Sea Cliff, NY, and to the OCA...
On December 3, 2017, our alumnus, Archbishop Benjamin visited our campus. His Eminence is the archbishop of San Francisco and the West in the Orthodox Church in America and now presides at Holy Trinity Cathedral in San Francisco . Currently four seminarians here at St. Vladimir’s hail from His Eminence’s...