His Grace Bishop Vasily was born to a Russian family in Riga, Latvia, and relocated to the United States in 1999 after completing his undergraduate studies. He entered Saint Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) in Yonkers, NY with the blessing of late Archbishop Dmitri (Royster) of Dallas. After finishing seminary, he enrolled in a doctoral program in Liturgical Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where in 2012 he defended his dissertation on the history and origins of the ...| www.oca.org