St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary - Events - Commencement Commencement 2003 Saturday, May 17, 2003

Candidates for the Master of Divinity degree:

Fred Lawrence Bittle (AOCA) - From the Beginning: Gender and the Theology of the Body - cum laude

Fr Gary Allen Bullock Jr. (AOCA) - Pastoral Approaches to Addiction Recovery

Fr James Alexander Coles Jr. (AOCA) - Orthodox Youth Ministry: Training Volunteer Leaders - cum laude

Adam Whitfield Thomas Cook (AOCA) - The Influence of Plato‰s Phaedo on Gregory of Nyssa‰s On the Soul and Resurrection

Brandon D.F. Gallaher (OCA) - Catholic Action: Ecclesiology, the Eucharist and the Question of Intercommunion in the Ecumenism of Sergii Bulgakov - Thesis Commendation

Fr Dellas Oliver Herbel (OCA) - Towards An Orthodox Christian Hunting Ethic

Jean Wason Knapp (OCA) - Human Process, Spiritual Growth and the Role of Shame - cum laude

Fr Basil Anthony Koory (AOCA) - Ancient Rules for Fasting: Can They Still Be Used Today?

Fr Aby P. Kurian (Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church) - An Indian Orthodox Church?

James A. Magruder, III (GOA) - The Sinope Gospels: An Illuminated Gospel Book as Anti-Chalcedonian Polemic - magna cum laude

Louis George Matthews Jr. (OCA) - Ministering to Grieving Children

Fr Philip Anjava Mugadizi (Patriarchate of Alexandria) - Celibacy and the Priesthood in Church

Marius Opincariu (Romanian Orthodox Church) - Counseling the Terminally Ill Patients with Cancer

Sloan Rolando (OCA) - Save Us Who Sing to You: the Form and Function of the Three Antiphons of the Divine Liturgy - summa cum laude

Matti Veli Juhani Wallgren (Finnish Orthodox Church) - The Finnish Lutheran-Orthodox Dialogue Between the Years of 1989-2001

Candidates for the Master of Arts degree in general theological studies:

Fr Ilya Gotlinsky (OCA) - The History of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church - cum laude

Christine Jabbour (Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese in Australia) - What it means to be a good spouse in John Chrysostom's Homily 20 on Epehsians 5:22-33

Peter B. Papazafiropoulos (GOA) - Moses in the Book of Deuteronomy

Darko (Ignjatija) Spasojevic (Serbian Orthodox Church)- Ignatius and John - A Comparative Study

Catharine L. Wason (AOCA) - African-American Encounter with Orthodoxy

Candidate for the Master of Arts degree in liturgical music:

Resa Lee Ellison (AOCA) - cum laude

Candidate for the Master of Arts degree in religious education:

Former student now eligible for the Master of Arts degree in religious education: Keith Edward Frase (OCA)

Candidates for the Master of Theology degree:

Christian Buchiu (Romanian Orthodox Church) - Welcome to the Brave New World. Inquiries on the gains and losses of modernity from a post-Byzantine Orthodox perspective

Fr Neil O‰Donoghue (Roman Catholic Church) - Eucharistic Spirituality in Pre-Norman Ireland