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Following a Moleben prayer service in honor of Ss. Cyril and Methodius, patrons of the Byzantine Catholic Seminary, Metropolitan William, Archbishop of Pittsburgh, conferred a diploma upon Joshua Van Winkle as a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the Seminary’s School of Theology on May 17, 2018. Board members, faculty, alumni, staff, family and friends were […]

Archbishop William Skurla ordained Seminarian Thomas Wells of the Archeparchy of Pittsburgh to the Order of Deacon on Sunday, June 3rd at St. John Chrysostom Byzantine Catholic Church in Houston, Texas.  In addition to many of Tom’s family and friends, clergy in attendance included Protopresbyter of the South and Pastor of St. John Chrysostom, Fr. Elias

On Saturday April 28th, 2018, representatives of the Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Ss. Cyril & Methodius paid a visit to Saint Mary Byzantine Catholic Church in Bradenville, PA, where the Rev. Joseph Borodach is pastor. The Very Rev. Robert Pipta, Rector of the Seminary, was the main celebrant and homilist for the Divine Liturgy. Fr.

Go to our You Tube Channel to view a lecture by Dr. Agnieszka Halemba, of the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Warsaw, which was given in November 2017 at the Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Ss. Cyril and Methodius. Her monograph, published by Central European University Press, “Negotiating Marian Apparitions” (2015) is

The Spring 2018 edition of our newsletter is available for download in PDF format.

The 18th Annual Saints Cyril and Methodius Lecture will take place at 7:00 pm on May 16, 2018 Guest Speaker: Archbishop Alexander (Golitzin) Topic: The Place of the Presence of God: Aphrahat of Persia’s Portrait of the Christian Holy Man Location: St. John Byzantine Catholic Cathedral Center, 210 Greentree Road, Munhall, PA Aphrahat the Persian

Summer online semester: Course descriptions for the summer classes are available:  http://online.bcs.edu/programs/course-descriptions/.  Registration is also available now (http://online.bcs.edu/register/).  The summer online semester will begin June 4th, 2018.  However, something new this year: this will be an accelerated semester.  That means, it will last seven weeks instead of the usual 14, with a lecture on Monday as well as Thursday each week.  All work

The February 2nd Feast of the Meeting of our Lord with Simeon provided the perfect setting for the Most Reverend David A. Zubik, DD, MSEd, Bishop of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, along with the staff and seminarians of St. Paul Seminary to visit the community of the Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Ss. Cyril and Methodius. The Divine

On Friday, February 23, the Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Ss. Cyril and Methodius welcomed members from the Seminary community of St. Vincent’s Archabby (Latrobe, PA) for an evening of prayer, food and fellowship.  The evening began with the Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts with Rector Fr. Robert Pipta serving as celebrant and Seminarian Fr.

Byzantine Online is pleased to partner with the Orientale Lumen Foundation to offer an online, one credit class called DT 105:  Ecumenism: Orientale Lumen.  This online course offers videotaped presentations of keynote speakers and discussions from the 2018 Orientale Lumen Conference (June 18-21, Washington, DC), an annual conference dedicated to Catholic-Orthodox dialogue in hopes, “that