Thirty graduate from St. Vladimir’s Seminary
With jubilant ceremony, thirty seminarians from Saint Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary here received their diplomas at Commencement exercises on Saturday, May 22, amid a throng of family, friends, and fellow classmates.
Eager, hopeful, and grateful, the Class of 2010—among them 12 priests—celebrated the end of their formal studies and the beginning of a variety of ministries in service to the Orthodox Church in North America and abroad.
His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah, President of the SVS Board of Trustees, presided at the exercises and the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy earlier that morning.
Highlights of the joyful day included the Valedictory address by Priest Andrew Cuneo and the Salutatory address by seminarian Michael Soroka.
The seminary Board of Trustees also bestowed honorary doctorates upon His Grace, Bishop Basil [Essey] of the Diocese of Wichita and Mid-America, Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, and Mr. Albert Foundos, a member of the seminary’s Board of Trustees. Mr. Foundos gave the Commencement address, titled “Where My Treasure Is.”
Commencement galleries and additional information may be found on the seminary web site at www.svots.edu.