June 17–19, 2011 The goals of this conference are: to explore and articulate the Christ-centered context out of which lay, and especially women’s ministries, are to be expressed to listen to women pursuing God-bearing vocations in Church, home, and society to help our Church and parishes foster women’s and lay...

Prof. David Drillock St. Vladimir’s Summer Institute 2004 I grew up in Osceola Mills, a very small town in central Pennsylvania located midway between Penn State University and the Horseshoe Curve near Altoona. The church, St. Mary’s (Nativity of the Virgin), was one of the early churches brought over to...

Father Giorgi Tskitishvili is a 34-year-old priest of the Orthodox Church of Georgia and a Master of Theology (Th.M.) degree candidate at St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS). Before becoming a priest, Fr. Giorgi was a successful pharmaceutical salesman who often traveled between Georgia and Turkey. When he became a...

His Eminence, Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) of Volokolamsk , chairman of the Department of External Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate and prolific writer and composer, visited St. Vladimir’s Seminary (SVOTS) Monday. His Eminence met with members of the Seminary community and discussed two of his monumental series published by St. Vladimir’s...