St. Tikhon’s 2007-2008 Timeline Fall/Spring School Year Highlights, August 2007 – May 2008 August 26 . . . . . . . .New Students arrive at the Seminary
October 9 . . . . .Feast of St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and Founder of St. Tikhon’s Monastery
August 26-29 . . . . . . . . . .Orientation for New Students October 9 August 29 . . . .Returning Students arrive at the Seminary August 30-31 . . . . . . . . . . . . .Seminary Opening Retreat September 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Classes begin September 8 . . . . .Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos – No Classes September 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . Alumni Association Picnic for Seminarians and Families
. . . . . . . .37th Annual Adult Lecture Series concludes: “The Three Levels of Prayer” Most Rev. Archbishop LAZAR, Retired Archbishop of Ottowa(OCA)
October 13-14 . . . . . . . .Mission Choir sings at St. John the Baptist Church, Campbell, OH October 14 . . . . . . . .Annual Founder’s Day Celebration October 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ordination to the Diaconate of Seminarian Joseph McCartney, by His Grace, Bishop TIKHON, at St. Tikhon’s Monastery Church
September 14 Elevation of the Holy Cross – No Classes October 15-19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mid Term Examinations September 18 37th Annual Adult Lecture Series begins: “What Does Pop Culture Have to Do with the Gospel?” Rt. Rev. SAVAS, Titular Bishop of Troas and Chancellor of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America September 21 . . . .50th Anniversary Testimonial Dinner for the Very Rev. George Dimopoulos – Honorary Doctorate awarded by St. Tikhon’s Seminary September 22-23 . . . . . . . .Mission Choir sings at Holy Protection Monastery, in Weaverville, NC September 25 . . . . . . .37th Annual Adult Lecture Series continues: “Holy Nation, Holy Diaconate, Holy Priesthood, Holy Episcopate” Rt. Rev. JOSEPH, Bishop of Los Angeles and the West (Antiochian Archdiocese) September 26 . . . . . . . . . . .Ordination to the Diaconate of Subdeacon Nikolai (Kevin) Meyers, by His Grace, Bishop JOSEPH of Los Angeles and the West (Antiochian Archdiocese) October 2
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37th Annual Adult Lecture Series continues: “Persecutions of the Early Christian Church.” Rt. Rev. PETER, Bishop of Cleveland and Vicar of the Chicago Diocese (ROCOR)
October 20 . . .OCEC Workshop: “Educating Ourselves and Our Children in Godliness” at St. Tikhon’s Seminary October 23 . . . . . . . . . . . . .Student-Wives Fall Evening Education Series begins October 26-28 . . . . .Mission Choir sings at St. Andrew Church, Maple Heights, OH November 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Very Rev. John Henderson, St. Peter Church (Antiochian Archdioese), Madison, MS, addresses Seminary community: “Piety, Holiness, Mission, Outreach and Healing” November 8 . . . . . . . .Feast of St. Michael the Archangel November 8 2nd Annual Youth Talent Show and Dinner November 9 . . . . .Fall Meeting of the Seminary Trustees November 11 . . . . . . . . . . .Fall Meeting of the Orthodox Inter-Seminary Movement (OISM), at Holy Cross Seminary, Brookline, MA November 11 Ordination to the Diaconate of Subdeacon Adam Sexton, by His Grace, Bishop TIKHON, at St. Michael Church, Jermyn, PA