• V. Rev. Michael Dahulich, Ph. D., Dean
  
Voice: 570.937.4411, ext.13 or 570.937.4144
E-mail: fr.michael "at" stots.edu

• Matushka Dorothy Sulich, Administrative Assistant

The mission of the Office of the Dean is to provide leadership in the overall administrative functioning of the Seminary and to cause implementation of administrative policy.

As the Chief Administrative Officer of the Seminary, the Dean has the primary responsibility for ensuring the integrity of the ongoing, day-to-day functioning of the Seminary; overseeing all aspects of student recruitment, admission, services, and placement, and performing such other duties as may be defined by the Administrative Handbook.

Profile

• B.Th., Christ the Savior Seminary; B.A., St Vincent College; M.A., Ph.D., Duquesne University
• Associate Professor of New Testament and Ethics, Director of Admissions and Dean of the Seminary
• Area of teaching: New Testament, Ethics
• Email: fr.michael "at" stots.edu

Biography

ARCHPRIEST MICHAEL G. DAHULICH, Ph.D., Dean and Associate Professor of New Testament and Ethics, has earned degrees from Christ the Saviour Seminary in Johnstown, Pa. (B.Th. in Theology), St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pa. (B.A. in Philosophy), and Duquesne University (M.A. and Ph.D. in Theology). He is cur­rently studying business at Villanova University.

In 1973, Fr. Michael was ordained to the Holy Priesthood by the late Bishop JOHN of the Carpatho-Russian Diocese. He served as Vice-Chancellor of the Diocese and the Secretary to two bishops. He was the Director of Religious Education for the Johnstown Deanery and the Dean of the parishes of the Mid-Atlantic Deanery. He worked as Associate Editor of The Church Messenger and compiled and edited the prayerbook Come to Me. He served as a member of the Study and Planning and Ecumenical Commissions of the Standing Conference of Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas.

He began teaching at St. Tikhon's in 1994; prior to that he was on the faculty at both Christ the Saviour Seminary and Duquesne University. He has delivered numerous guest lectures and led sev­eral spiritual retreats. He has written extensively for The Church Messenger and Alive in Christ and has a recurring column on "Sobornost" in The Orthodox Herald. Presently he serves as edi­tor of The Spirit of St. Tikhon's newspaper, St. Tikhon's Theological Journal and the annual Tikhonaire publication. He is a member of the Orthodox Theological Society of America and rep­resents the OCA at the advisory council meetings of the American Bible Society.