Faculty member and alumna Dr. Sarah Byrne-Martelli has developed a penchant for firsts. In 2019, she became the first woman to graduate from St. Vladimir's Seminary's Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) program in its current format. Now, she has also become the first chaplain to be accepted as a full-time Research...
“My hope and prayer when I joined the Board was that I would be able to make an impact on the success of the Seminary with the experiences I have had in my life,” said Francis (Frank) Barrett. “To be able to play a small part in improving the quality...
CrossRoad Summer Institute hosted one of its summer sessions on the campus of St. Vladimir’s Seminary (SVOTS) this July. Although technically the program’s first official visit to campus in its twenty-year history, it was a homecoming of sorts for CrossRoad. The Seminary welcomed a group of thirty-two high school juniors...
On this Feast of Holy Transfiguration, St. Vladimir’s Seminary remembers the eminent Orthodox Church musician and noted Professor Boris Ledkovsky, on the 50th anniversary of his repose in the Lord (+Aug. 6, 1975). Boris Ledkovsky was born in 1894 in Agrafenovka, Russia. The son of a priest, Boris began directing...
In his new role as Manager of Operations for St. Vladimir’s Seminary (SVS) Press , Dr. Daniel Stauffer gets to combine his academic expertise in late Byzantine theology with his aptitude for business. He spent the past eight years at the University of Notre Dame, where he completed a master’s...
The word “piety” is now seldom used outside the Church. What precisely is piety, let alone biblical piety? In the new book Biblical Piety and Prayer from St. Vladimir’s Seminary (SVS) Press, author Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon explores figures from the Old and New Testaments to examine the concepts of...
Dr. John Barnet is Associate Professor of New Testament at St. Vladimir’s Seminary, where he teaches courses in New Testament and biblical Greek—but the details of his life almost read like something out of a spy novel. His path to the Seminary took him from Italy to the United States...
In recent weeks members of the St. Vladimir's Seminary community traveled to the gravesites of two luminaries in the history of the Seminary and the Orthodox Church in America (OCA)—Frs. Georges Florovsky and John Meyendorff—to pray for the souls of the departed. On August 11, a group led by Archpriest...
By Sarah Bracey-Johnson Thanksgiving is a classic example of how time flows here St. Vladimir’s. Other institutions may experience it in a roughly linear fashion. Here it pools and eddies, and occasionally it seems to be going backward. Thus it is only natural that we celebrate Thanksgiving well in advance...
Two affable Orthodox Christian Swedes visited our campus this week, to gain "inspiration" and to glean "knowledge" that will help them develop "Sankt Ignatios teologiska seminarium"—that is, "St. Ignatios Theological Seminary"— a newly formed school in the town of Södertälje, Sweden, which opened its doors September 2010. Olle Westberg, the...