HG Mathews Mar Barnabas Visits St. Vladimir's Seminary

St. Vladimir's and St. Tikhon's are two of the seminaries of the Orthodox Church of America, both educating a group of the 2nd-generation seminarians with the blessing of our Diocese.

What's so encouraging is that both St. Vlads and St Tikhons reach out to our Church in friendship and unity, and recently Barnabas Thirumeni was honored at St. Valdamir's. A real positive and encouraging sign for the Indian Orthodox Church in America!

Metropolitan Mar Barnabas of the American Diocese of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church spent Friday, January 18, 2008 with St Vladimir's seminarians and faculty as our "Hierarch in Residence." Each semester, one bishop is invited to the seminary to spend a day with the students and faculty. Hierarchs in Residence pass on the lessons of their experience, interact socially with the students and expose them to different traditions. Since 1993, Metropolitan Mar Barnabas has been the spiritual guide and shepherd for over 10,000 Indian Orthodox Christians in the United States, including many SVS students.

http://www.svots.edu/news/recent/2008-0118-metbarnabas/