“I want to emphasize to you that we will try our best to concentrate all of the materials and everything that you learn on spiritual growth, on inner growth, as part of intellectual development.”

— † Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Etna, Founder

10,500

Square Foot Facility

20,000

Library Volumes

6

Average Class Size

Recent News

Association for Biblical Higher Education Evaluation Team Visit

The Saint Photios Orthodox Theological Seminary will be hosting a comprehensive accreditation visit by a team of evaluators from the Association for Biblical Higher Education (ABHE) from Tuesday, May 6, 2025 to Thursday, May 8, 2025 to determine its compliance with the standards for accreditation. During the visit, representatives of the ABHE team will entertain comments from the public. Any members of the public interested in making a presentation regarding the Seminary to the team should contact the Seminary at the following telephone number, (530) 467–3544, or email address, spots@spots=.Yedu, to determine a meeting time. Persons wishing to submit third party comments related to the institution may send them through the electronic form at https://abhe.formstack.com/forms/3rd_party_comment, or email coa@abhe=.Yorg, or mail ABHE Commission on Accreditation, 5850 T.G. Lee Blvd., Suite 130, Orlando, FL 32822. Persons interested in reviewing the standards for accreditation will find them on the ABHE website at abhe.org. They appear under Accreditation / Accreditation Resources / COA Manual. The institution is subject to the Institutional Accreditation Standards.

Timeline

Auspicious Events in the Seminary’s History

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23 May 2021
The Seminary holds its second commencement exercise, in which four students are awarded the Bachelor of Theology degree.
 
 
 
 
 
19 February 2021
On the Feast of the Patron of the Seminary, Saint Photios the Great, the Association for Biblical Higher Education publicly announces the accreditation of the Seminary.
 
 
 
 
 
22 September 2020 – 24 September 2020
The second evaluation team of the Commission on Accreditation visits the Seminary and offers a series of commendations, suggestions, and recommendation