by Deborah (Malacky) Belonick During the Divine Liturgy for the feast of the Presentation of the Lord into the Temple, The Right Reverend Mark, bishop of Baltimore and administrator of the Diocese of the South of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), ordained seminarians Dn. Photius Avant to the Holy...

[img_assist|nid=4925|title=|desc=Very Rev. Dr. Harry Pappas, retreat master for April 2, 2011|link=none|align=left|width=170|height=226]This year’s public lenten retreat on Saturday, April 2, 2011, will take participants “Back to Basics” in an exploration of the biblical books of Genesis, Proverbs, and Isaiah. The Very Rev. Dr. Harry Pappas, adjunct professor of Pastoral Theology at our seminary and retreat master for the day, will be examining the overall theme, "Back to Basics: Old Testament & Life."

By Deborah (Malacky) Belonick “Renewing St. Vladimir’s commitment to the formation and continuing education of Orthodox Christian priests, I am pleased to make public the hiring of Fr. Sergius Halvorsen, who will teach homiletics to our student body and who also will develop a D.Min. hybrid program that will provide...

On Monday, February 28th at 5 p.m., His Beatitude, Metropolitan Krystof, primate of the Orthodox Church in the Czech Lands and Slovakia, will receive an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree at an Academic Convocation held in his honor on our campus. His Beatitude will deliver an address to the seminary community during the [img_assist|nid=4944|title=|desc=His Beatitude Krystof, primate of Czech Lands and Slovakia|link=none|align=left|width=200|height=198]cermonious occasion. The convocation, which is open to the public, will be held in the Metropolitan Philip Auditorium of the John G. Rangos Family Building.

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At an Academic Convocation Monday evening, the seminary's Board of Trustees honored His Beatitude Metropolitan Krystof, primate of the Orthodox Church in the Czech Lands and Slovakia, by bestowing upon him a Doctor of Divinity degree, honoris causa, in recognition of his theological, missionary, and pastoral gifts, which have been...

At an Academic Convocation held on our campus Monday evening, Anne Glynn Mackoul, Executive Chair of the seminary’s Board of Trustees, announced a decision by the Board to reappoint the seminary Dean, Archpriest John Behr, and Chancellor, Archpriest Chad Hatfield, to their positions for additional five-year terms, beginning in 2012...

March 23, 2011 • Off-Campus Event[img_assist|nid=5001|title=|desc=Our seminary Men's Choir, with Chancellor Archpriest Chad Hatfield (far right).|link=none|align=right|width=300|height=179] On Wednesday, March 23, at 6:30 p.m., our seminary Men's Choir will be singing the responses to the Presanctified Liturgy at the Church of Our Saviour Greek Orthodox Church in Rye, New York. The Men's Choir, led by Hierodeacon Philip Majkrzak, is versed in several styles of traditional church music, including Byzantine chant. The Rev. Fr. Elias G. Villas, rector of the parish, will preside at the liturgy, and a lenten repast will be held following the service.

Our faculty will be delivering several retreats and homilies throughout North America during this season of Great Lent. Please check your local church listings and come to hear them when they visit your geographical area. Archpriest John Behr, Dean [img_assist|nid=5022|title=|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=328|height=493] Saturday, March 12, 2011, 7 p.m., St. Joseph Church, Wheaton, IL, public lecture on "The Meaning of Icons" Sunday, March 13, 2011, 6:30 p.m., St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church, Cicero, IL, Homilist at the Triumph of Orthodoxy Vespers

How does one accomplish Orthodox Christian unity among jurisdictions? "One heart at a time," claims Monk Kilian (Sprecher), a St. Vladimir's seminarian who concluded his one-year term as President of the Orthodox Inter-Seminary Movement (OISM) at the annual Spring meeting of the group, which gathered on our campus over the...