David Fitzpatrick Arnold – Seeking Balance Between Subjective and Objective Criteria for Music in the Liturgical Assembly of the Orthodox Church of America - cum laude

Marius Balo – Genetic Engineering: Defending the sanctity of Human Life

Noah Forest Bushelli – The Healing Ministry of the Word: A Critique of Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos’ Therapeutic Ecclesiology Based on St John Chrysostom’s Homily on the Good Samaritan – cum laude

Jeremy Sean Davis – Physical and Spiritual Procreation in the Symposium on Chastity by Methodius of Olympus – magna cum laude, co-valedictorian

Benjamin D. deLee – An Intellectual History of Iconodule Defense During the Iconoclast Controversy – cum laude

Peter Drobac – Christian Friendship and Adelphopoiesis – magna cum laude

Ara Papken Kadehjian – The Armenian Prayer Book Kyprianos: A Hagiographic Analysis

Xenios Christopher Marckx – Tamar’s Righteousnes: A Model of Christian Righteousness to Reconsider the Debate on Contraception

Vitalijs Permjakovs – Feeding Upon the Word of God: The Exegesis of John 6: 31-58 in the Writings of Origen – magna cum laude - co-valedictorian

Richard Paul Rene – The Laughing Bishop: An Oral History of the Pastoral Vision and Practice of Bishop Seraphim (Storheim) of Canada – magna cum laude

John Strickland – The Church Valuables Campaign in the History of the New Martyrdom in Russia – cum laude

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Candidate for the degree of Master of Arts in liturgical music

Peter Drobac – magna cum laude

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

Alexander William Cadman – Now Is the Time: The Factors that Necessitate Orthodox Campus Mission Today

Brent Douglas Gilbert – Luke-Acts and Ancient Historiography: The role of Genre in Hermeneutics – summa cum laude

Toru Takei – Samurai and Christianity

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Candidates for the degree of Master of Theology

Stephen R. Lloyd-Moffett – Holy Preveza: The Bishop, the Monastery, and the People of a Modern Provincial Greek Town

John Edgar Parker III – The sanctity of Chastity: An Orthodox Approach to Homosexuality

Andrei V. Psarev – The Attitude of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad Toward Non-Orthodox Christians and the Ecumenical Movement

Graduating class, with hierarchs and seminary faculty