Are you contemplating ministry or a deeper study of the Orthodox faith? Are you a recent or soon-to-be college grad discerning what your next step is? Or, maybe you are going through a "Quarter-life Crisis" and need a push in the right direction? No matter what life-altering questions you may...

March 13, 2011 • Off-campus Event This year's homilist for the Triu[img_assist|nid=5063|title=|desc=The Very Rev. Paul Nadim Tarazi|link=none|align=left|width=200|height=266]mph of Orthodoxy Vespers service, sponsored by the Westchester County Orthodox Clergy Fellowship, is St. Vladimir's Seminary's Professor of Old Testament, The Very Rev. Dr. Paul Nadim Tarazi. The service, which marks the 41st annual gathering for this occasion, will be celebrated at 6 p.m. at the Virgin Mary Antiochian Orthodox Church, 236 Grandview Blvd., Yonkers, NY. Our seminary Men's Choir will sing portions of the service.

Last year, our Dean and Chancellor traveled extensively—to local parishes and international colloquia—delivering the Good News of the faith and spreading the news about our seminary, its programs and progress. Archpriest John Behr, dean, logged 44,449 in land and air miles, while foreign and domestic miles traversed by Archpriest Chad...

St. Vladimir’s Seminary is pleased to welcome two new staff members: Matushka Robin Freeman, Annual Gifts Officer; and Matthew Garklavs, Assistant Librarian. Matushka Robin replaces as Annual Gifts Officer, Fr. Jason Foster, now attached as priest to Bossier City Mission Orthodox Church in Louisiana. Matushka Robin Freeman graduated in 2006...

Church Architecture Seminar—Schedule Saturday, June 25, 2011 Presented by Andrew Gould 8:00 a.m. Common Worship and Breakfast: Germack Building Refectory 9:00 a.m. First Lecture: Education Building, Bashir Auditorium An overview of the history and development of Orthodox church architecture, focusing on the basic floor plan typologies, their strengths and weaknesses...

From March 2-9, 2011, Professors Peter Bouteneff and Paul Meyendorff traveled to Aghia Napa, Cyprus, to participate in an Inter-Orthodox Consultation hosted by the Orthodox Archbishopric of Cyprus. The consultation, sponsored by the World Council of Churches (WCC), was convened to prepare a common Orthodox response to a Faith an...

Iconography Workshop—Schedule June 19–25, 2011 Students for the Iconography Workshop should arrive on Sunday, June 19, 2011, and be ready to begin work at 8 a.m. on Monday, June 20th. The workshop will extend until Saturday morning, June 25th. We suggest participants allocate three hours for travel to area airports...

June 19, 2011 Sunday 1:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Registration (with snacks): Rangos Building Atrium 5:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m. Worship and Dinner: Germack Building Refectory 6:30 p.m.–9:00 p.m Introduction: Education Building, Room 301 (downstairs) —utility sink and sinks in both restrooms available June 20, 2011 Monday— June 24, 2011 Friday 8:00 a.m. Morning...

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...

June 9–11, 2011 All teaching, guidance of sessions, and individual counseling will be conducted by Dr. Albert S. Rossi, Adjunct Professor of Pastoral Theology at SVOTS. All sessions will fully involve participants, and will be in the format of “workshops,” that is, with interactive questioning, discussion, role-playing, and viewing of...