Under the guidance of alumnus and priest, Fr. Nicholas J. Solak, our first-year seminarians have begun their annual training for prison ministry. For the second year in a row, Fr. Nicholas is preparing our freshmen students for their Prison Ministry Field Experience, which will begin in earnest in January 2012...
In October 2010, our Dean, Archpriest John Behr, visited the Theological Faculty of the University of Belgrade, joining in the celebrations for their (and his) patronal feast of St. John the Theologian. He spoke with both faculty and students at the university, giving a series of theological lectures; he also...
Archpriest Elias Bitar, who has been Lecturer in Liturgical Music (with a specialty in Byzantine music) and Practical Theology for nearly thirty years here at St. Vladimir's, was feted at our community's annual Thanksgiving Dinner, on the occasion of his retirement. Known for his rich and powerful voice, Fr. Bitar...
Director of Alumni Relations and Recruitment Protodeacon Joseph Matusiak today announced the results of the recent Alumni Board elections. Newly welcomed to the Board are: Khouria Stefanie Yazge (Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese, alumna 1986): Kh. Stefanie has worked for Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, Terre Haute, Indiana as an Assistant Professor in...
St. Vladimir's Seminary is conducting a survey to assist in the development of distance learning programs for the Doctor of Ministry, Master of Arts, and Continuing Education programs. The Rev. J. Sergius Halvorsen, associate professor for Homiletics and Rhetoric at St. Vladimir's, will be using the information from the survey...
Once in leadership positions in the U.S. Army and National Guard, Seminarian James Parnell is transferring those skills to his new position as Student Council President. Elected in May 2011, he heads up a fresh team: 3rd-year representatives Sarah Johnson and Andrew Boyd; 2nd-year representative Anoop Thomas (Treasurer); and 1st-year...
After five years of laudable service as Executive Chair of the seminary Board of Trustees, Anne Glynn-Mackoul stepped down from the position at the annual meeting of the board, held on our campus November 16–18. Alex Machaskee, retired Publisher, President, and CEO of The Plain Dealer—Ohio’s largest newspaper—and current Chair...
Following 12 years of outstanding service to our Board of Trustees and the seminary, Attorney Michael Bress was honored at a celebratory dinner with the bestowal of the title "Trustee Emeritus," a gramata acknowledging his board contributions, and a beautiful icon of the Holy and Great Prince Vladimir, patron of...
As he took a military oath that dates back to the Revolutionary War, Hieromonk Kilian—a seminarian in the Master of Theology program at St. Vladimir’s—also became known as “Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Christopher Sprecher,” and a chaplain in the U.S. Navy Reserves. Hieromonk Kilian, who completed his Master of Divinity degree...
There is no "Missionary's Manual' for Sierra Leone, a West African country of magnificent natural beauty deeply scarred by the meanest forms of human brutality during the civil wars that lasted from 1991 to 2004. The religious question in Sierra Leone is not so much the bourgeois "What Would Jesus...