A mission team from the seminary community, led by Chancellor/CEO Archpriest Chad Hatfield, will be in Guatemala May 31–June 7 to lend much-needed hands to Hogar Rafael Ayau Orphanage. The team will assist in moving the orphanage from "Zone 1," a crime-ridden and dangerous area of Guatemala City, to Hogar...
More than thirty-five St. Vladimir's Seminary alumni, representing twelve graduating classes, as well as friends and prospective seminarians, gathered at St. Joseph Church, Wheaton, Illinois for a Bright Friday dinner sponsored by the SVOTS Alumni Association. Archpriest Alexander Rentel, assistant professor of Canon Law and Byzantine Studies at the seminary...
View a sermon delivered by senior seminarian Deacon David (Chandler) Poling, here. Beginning fall semester 2012, Scripture and Homiletics courses offered at St. Vladimir’s will be augmented in accordance with planned curriculum revisions begun by the Dean and faculty in 2007. The reinforced curriculum, according to Dr. John Barnet, associate...
Kids in our campus Church School finished out their program with a celebratory field day—fun games and grilled food capped their year-long learning experience. Second-year seminarian Ashley Lear served as the director of this year's program, which she designed to provide much longer but less frequent learning sessions: focused retreats...
This coming fall semester, Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) will become a requirement for all new students enrolled in the Master of Divinity program at the seminary. This means that beginning in academic year 2012–2013, incoming seminarians who are M.Div. candidates will be required to complete 400 hours of hospital visitation...
The St. Vladimir's Alumni Association welcomes alumnus Gregory Abdalah ('07) as the new Chair of the Alumni Association Board. Mr. Abdalah was selected for the position during the spring election, which resulted in adding three new at-large members to the Alumni Board as well. Mr. Abdalah, who succeeds Archpriest David...
For the third year in a row, a teaching team from St. Vladimir's Seminary flew north to Alaska to spend a week teaching at St. Herman Seminary in Kodiak. The team consisted of Chancellor/CEO Archpriest Chad Hatfield; Priest David Mezynski, associate dean for Student Affairs; and Ian Jones, a 2009...
Bishop of Toledo and the Bulgarian Diocese of the Orthodox Church in America and an alumnus of St. Vladimir's Seminary, will deliver the commencement address to the Class of 2012 on Saturday, May 19th. Commencement exercises will start at 2 p.m., beginning with a Prayer of Supplication in Three Hierarchs...
Stunning, exquisite, arresting, brilliant...there are not enough superlative adjectives to describe the performance of sacred music delivered by St. Vladimir's Seminary Chorale in the heart of Manhattan this past Monday evening. With artistic execution and prayerful potency, the singers filled the warm and inviting space of St. Malachy's Chapel with...
At a dinner following the service of Vespers on Thursday, May 3rd, the seminary community bid farewell to Archpriest Steven J. Belonick, who served most recently as Campus Chaplain at St. Vladimir’s. Father Steven, who was employed at the seminary from 2000–2011, was assigned as rector of Holy Ghost Russian...