John H. Erickson

John H. Erickson is Dean of Saint Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in the United States.

After growing up in northern Minnesota, Erickson joined the Orthodox Church in 1964. He studied at Harvard (B.A., 1966), Yale (M.Phil., 1970), and St Vladimir's Seminary (M.Th., 1984).

Erickson began teaching Canon Law and Church History at Saint Vladimir's Seminary in 1973. Following the retirement of Father Thomas Hopko, he became Dean in July 2002, the first layman to hold the post.

On January 30, 2006, he was ordained deacon by Metropolitan Herman (Swaiko) of the Orthodox Church in America.

Bibliography

• Orthodox Christians in America (Oxford University Press, 1999) ISBN 0-88141-086-1

• The Quest for Unity: Orthodox and Catholics in Dialogue, with John Borelli (SVS Press and United States Catholic Conference, 1996) ISBN 0-88141-113-2

• The Challenge of Our Past: Essays in Orthodox Church History and Canon Law (SVS Press, 1990) ISBN 0-19-510852-3

• Associate editor, Orthodox America, 1794-1976 (Orthodox Church in America, 1975)

• Editor and translator. Vladimir Lossky, In the Image and Likeness of God (SVS Press, 1974) ISBN 0-913836-13-3

External link

• Erickson's faculty page at the St Vladimir's website.