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On Saturday, February 10, 2018, St. Vladimir’s Seminary Chorale commenced its “Orthodox Masterpieces” series, a musical endeavor that invites the public to hear beautifully composed hymns in their proper setting: communal worship. To inaugurate the series, the Chorale sang Great Vespers in Three Hierarchs Chapel, featuring select compositions by Alumnus Archpriest Sergei Glagolev. Robin Freeman, director of Music at the Seminary, conducted the singers, and Archpriest Alexander Rentel, chapel ecclesiarch, presided at the service, assisted by seminarians Dn. Larry Soper and Dn. Herman Fields.

Hundreds of friends and alumni attended our annual open house, Orthodox Education Day, which this year had the timely theme, “Modern Martyrs: Christians of the Middle East and North Africa.” Explicating the theme in an eloquent and informative keynote address was biblical scholar the Reverend Dr. George Parsenios, associate professor of New Testament, Princeton Theological Seminary, and sessional professor of New Testament at St. Vladimir’s.

Our Seminary’s 2017 Commencement ceremonies, held May 20, included several distinguishing moments in addition to the granting of degrees to 16 graduates in three academic programs.

Our Three Hierarchs Chapel community—seminarians, faculty, and staff, and their families and friends—soberly and joyfully celebrated 22 liturgical services together during the period from Lazarus Saturday to Bright Tuesday [photos by Glen Mules and Diakonissa Adrienne Soper].

The Reverend Dr. John Chryssavgis, archdeacon of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, presented the 33rd Annual Father Alexander Schmemann Memorial Lecture titled, “Toward the Great and Holy Council: Retrieving a Culture of Conciliarity and Consensus” to an engaged, capacity crowd.

The St. Vladimir's community celebrated the Vigil and Feast of Theophany on January 5 and 6 with a full liturgical cycle.

Ugandan seminarian Simon Menya spent his Christmas holiday in his home parishes, creating connections between his seminary in New York and the faithful of Uganda.

On December 13, 2015 at The Cathedral of St. John the Theologian in Tenafly, New Jersey, Sessional Professor of New Testament Dr. George Parsenios was ordained to the Holy Diaconate by the hand of His Eminence Metropolitan Evangelos, Greek Orthodox Metropolis of New Jersey.