Academic Convocation 2009
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Historic Document Signed by St. Vladimir’s & Nashotah House
House Graduates Doctor of Ministry
n a service that included an address by the Rt. Rev. David Bruce MacPherson, the awarding of four honorary doctoral degrees (including one, posthumously, to the Rev. Canon John Heidt), and the graduation of a cohort of M.A. Min. distancelearners, Nashotah House conferred its first Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) degree upon the Rev. Stephen Samples (right), Rector of St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Enid, Oklahoma.
Doctors of Divinity, honoris causa (L-R): the Rt. Rev. Donald Frederick Harvey, Bishop of Eastern Labrador and Newfoundland (retired); the Rt. Rev. David Bruce MacPherson, Bishop of Western Louisiana; and the Rev. Dr. Jeremy Patrick Sheehy, former Principal of St. Stephen’s House, Oxford.
Accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in 2007, Nashotah House’s D.Min program “offers advanced education to clergy and other ministry leaders in areas for which Nashotah is famous—namely, liturgy and spirituality,” says Dean Robert Munday. “And like every other academic program at Nashotah House, it fortifies the faith and deepens the spirituality of its students through common prayer and worship.” Designed to develop skills in congregational and ministerial leadership, the program’s major areas of concentration include Biblical Exposition, Liturgy and Worship, Spirituality, and Congregational Development. For more information about this and other continuing education programs at the House, contact Carol Klukas at admissions@nashotah.edu.
Left: Fr. Chad Hatfield of St. Vladimir’s and Fr. Robert Munday of Nashotah House. Above: The Most Blessed Jonah and Bishop Edward L. Salmon, Jr., signing the Concordat.
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Concordat
hereas the oldest ongoing ecumenical dialogue is between Anglican and Orthodox Christians, dating from the formation of the Russo-Greek Committee of 1862; and hereas the Fellowship of St. Alban and St. Sergius was founded in 1928 to pray and work for Christian unity and to provide Christians of the Orthodox and Western traditions a deeper understanding of one another’s spirituality, theology, and worship; and hereas this great legacy owes much to prominent Anglican and Orthodox theologians and hierarchs associated with both Nashotah House and St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary; including St. Tikhon of Moscow, Bishop Charles Chapman Grafton, Archpriest Georges Florovsky, Isabella Hapgood, Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann, Archbishop Michael Ramsey, Protopresbyter John Meyendorff, Archbishop Robert Runcie, Metropolitan Kallistos Ware and Bishop Robert Terwilliger; and
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hereas this 20th anniversary of the Glorification of St. Tikhon recalls our common legacy and quickens our mutual desire to see it continued; e, therefore, of St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary and Nashotah House Theological Seminary pledge ourselves to a mutual fellowship of prayer and learning in the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. n witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands this October 10th in the year of our Lord two thousand nine.
The Most Blessed Jonah Archbishop of Washington, D.C. Metropolitan of All America and Canada President of the Board of Trustees St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary The Very Reverend John Behr Dean St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary The Rev. Dr. Samples (second from left) with our second graduating class of Distance-Learners (L-R): Thomas Malionek, Kimberley Anne Talbot, Scott Charles Evans, Cynthia Kendrick Stansbury, Vernon H. Barber, Jr., Robert Nelson Smith and H. B. W. Schroeder. Not pictured: John Charles Metcalf and Ernest R. Buchanan.
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The Very Reverend Chad Hatfield Chancellor St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary
The Right Reverend Edward L. Salmon, Jr. Bishop of South Carolina (retired) Chairman of the Board of Trustees Nashotah House Theological Seminary The Very Reverend Canon Robert S. Munday Dean and President Nashotah House Theological Seminary The Right Reverend Keith L. Ackerman Bishop of Quincy (retired) Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees Nashotah House Theological Seminary