Metropolitan Tikhon awards His Grace the honorary doctorate.His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), the Board of Trustees of St. Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary, and St. Tikhon's Rector His Eminence Archbishop Michael, awarded an honorary doctorate to His Grace Bishop Thomas at the Seminary's graduation on May 27, 2017.
His Grace also offered the Commencement Address, in which he noted: "We do not confer degrees upon you to be academics but spiritual physicians in the spiritual hospitals of our parishes and churches. In that sense, your formation and training has just begun and will be ongoing throughout your life and your ministry.
His Grace offers the Commencement Address."We do not need academicians and administrators," he continued, "as much as we need holy men who guard their friendship with Christ as the pearl of great price so that they may share that with the people whom they serve."
Seminarian Marshall Goodge of the Antiochian Archdiocese also received his Master of Divinity degree at the Commencement.
For more information, visit the St. Tikhon's Seminary website.
His Grace with Archbishop Michael, St. Tikhon's Rector.
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