2025/2026 Academic Year Begins at Christ the Saviour Seminary

Tuesday, September 9, 2025

JOHNSTOWN, PA  -- [Diocesan Chancery]  Monday, September 8, 2025  was the opening of the Fall Semester of studies.  It began with Liturgy celebrated by Fr. Miles Zdinak.  His Eminence presided, and Father Miloro and Father Rustick participated.  Father Zdinak offered a day of recollection with several retreat meditations which allowed ample opportunity for reflection.  

 

Pictured are: (1st row, l to r):  Protopresbyter Frank P. Miloro, Dean; His Eminence, Metropolitan Gregory, Rector; Father Michael Rustick, Prefect; and Very Rev. Miles P. Zdinak, Spiritual Director.

(2nd row, l to r): Seminarians John Bonnewicz-Coffey, a vocation of St. Nectarios Mission, Lakeland, FL; Clay Wood, Holy Cross Church, Columbus, OH; Brad Shaffer, St. Alexis Church, Battle Ground, IN; Nicholas Cizin, Holy Ghost Church, Manville, NJ; John R. Fedornock III, Christ the Saviour Cathedral, Johnstown, PA; Clay Spyridon Raburn, St. Nectarios Mission, Lakeland, FL. 

Not pictured were part-time students: Deacon Peter Sodini of St. Michael Church, Niles, IL; Deacon Maximus Cannaverde, St. Nicholas Church, Murphy, NC; and Sem. Alex Hurtsellers, St. Elizabeth Mission, Woodstock, GA.  In addition, Sem. Robert Leonardo, a vocation of St. John's Church in Rahway, NJ, is the tenth seminarian of the Diocese at present.  He is studying at St. Tikhon's Seminary in South Canaan, PA.

This is the Seminary's eighty-fifth year of providing a theological program of formation for future priests of the Diocese since its establishment by the late Metropolitan Orestes P. Chornock in 1940.