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...

Members of the St. Vladimir’s Seminary (SVOTS) family brought a taste of the Seminary home to Kernersville, North Carolina this summer. On Sunday, August 10, SVOTS Dean Dr. Ionuț-Alexandru Tudorie made a trip to Holy Cross Orthodox Church to attend Divine Liturgy and lead a coffee-hour discussion about the Seminary’s...

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Sunday marked the 45th anniversary of the falling asleep of Alexander Bogolepov (+Aug. 31, 1980), longtime Professor of Canon Law at St. Vladimir's Seminary, and about whom Fr. Alexander Schmemann wrote “He remains forever one of the school’s founding fathers.” Born on January 16, 1886, Prof. Bogolepov graduated from the...

YONKERS, NY—Giving thanks to God, St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) kicked off its 2025–2026 Academic Year on Monday, August 25, with new faces among the student body, faculty, and staff. Twenty-seven (27) students—including both men and women, single and married—are beginning their first year of studies in their respective...

Mitchell Tobler, from the Orthodox Church in America (OCA)’s Diocese of the West , is a former Baptist minister who never expected to be a St. Vladimir’s seminarian. Yet in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, he faced ministry burnout and health issues, and he and his wife Christina began...