Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary Releases 2024 Annual Report

On Saturday, February 2/15, two ordinations of seminarians took place on the Great Feast of The Meeting of Our Lord in the Temple.

The feast of the Three Hierarchs, the patronal feast of the seminary, was celebrated on February 12th, 2025 at Holy Trinity Monastery Cathedral in Jordanville, NY.

The seminary administration is pleased to share that Rev. Protodeacon Andrei Psarev, Ph.D., Professor of Canon Law and Russian Church History, and Seminarian John Kurr (3rd year B.Th. - undergraduate student - class of ‘26) attended the inaugural conference of the Orthodox Canon Law Society of North America (OCLSNA)

With the blessing of His Eminence, Metropolitan Nicholas (Olhovsky), seminarians representing Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary (HTOS) attended a retreat over the weekend of November 8-10, 2024, which was organized by the Orthodox Inter-Seminary Movement (OISM) at St. Tikhon’s Monastery and Seminary in South Canaan, Pennsylvania.

On December 6/19, 2024, the feast of St Nicholas, Archbishop of Myra and Lycia, the Wonderworker, the entire seminary and monastery community in Jordanville congratulated Protodeacon Victor Lochmatow (HTOS ’67) on the milestone of the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the Holy Diaconate.

On the weekend of December 7-8, at the invitation of cathedral rector, Archpriest Serge Lukianov, His Grace Bishop Luke, bringing the Jordanville Pochaev Mother of God, led the seminary choir delegation to St Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Howell (Lakewood), NJ. The seminary choir, under the direction of Deacon Nicholas Kotar, has made visits to the parish annually in December for 8 years in a row, beginning in 2017.

Archbishop Peter of Chicago and Mid America reposed in the Lord unexpectedly on Friday, November 8, 2024. His Eminence was an alumnus of Holy Trinity Seminary, class of 1971, and a member of the monastic brotherhood of Holy Trinity Monastery. You can visit the ROCOR website to view Archbishop Peter's biography:
https://www.synod.com/.../20241108_enarchbppeterrespose.html
 

The Rev. Protodeacon Nicholas V. Lukianov Memorial CTS Scholarship has been established and funded beginning for the current 2024-25 academic year by Fr. Nicholas’ wife, Matushka Anna Lukianov, his daughters, Marina, Sophia, and Tatiana, and members of the Lukianov family. This scholarship is being made available exclusively to clerics of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia Church who do not have a formal seminary education and are interested in enrolling in the Certificate in Theological Studies (independent study - distance learning) program at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary, the program which Fr. Nicholas himself graduated from.

On Monday, July 8, His Grace, Bishop Jerome (Shaw), arrived at Holy Virgin Protection Church in Nyack, NY, to celebrate Divine Liturgy and officiate the funeral of Archpriest George Larin, pastor emeritus of that parish and one-time diocesan secretary, who reposed in the Lord on July 5.

On Monday afternoon, April 15, Metropolitan Nicholas of Eastern America & New York arrived in Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, NY to officiate the funeral of newly departed Protodeacon Joseph Jarostchuk, who reposed in the Lord the Thursday prior.

Fr. Seraphim Baltic, HTOS Alumnus, class of 2008, was elected as an Episcopal candidate in the Serbian Orthodox Church in America. AXIOS!

On Tuesday, November 19, Holy Trinity Publications launched a new book under its academic imprint, Holy Trinity Seminary Press entitled ‘Tsarist Russia in Greater Syria: Defending Orthodox Interests 1825-1917”