Protodeacon Serge Arlievsky

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REV. PROTODEACON SERGE ARLIEVSKY

Adjunct Lecturer,
Department of Liturgics, Sacred Arts and Music

Fr. Serge Arlievsky grew up attending services at the Convent Novo-Diveyevo, where his grandfather served as deacon. At a young age, he took an interest in singing and reading in church, then in choir directing. While in college studying mechanical engineering, he continued his pursuit of classical piano and even performed concertos by Beethoven and Rachmaninoff with local orchestras, as well as solo recitals.

While working as a Design Engineer in the aerospace industry, he was ordained to the diaconate on the Convent Feast Day of St. Seraphim of Sarov (January 2/15) in 1995. After serving at the Convent for 29 years, in January of 2024 Metropolitan Nicholas assigned him to the Synodal Cathedral of Our Lady of the Sign in New York City, where he currently serves.

Fr Serge has sat on the Synodal Liturgical Music Commission since 2000, taking an active role in organizing the annual Church Musicians’ Conferences, and musical/liturgical aspects of various other youth conferences and seminars. He is a member of the faculty of the Synodal School of Liturgical Music (SSLM). He spent many years as Director of Studies of the Saturday parish school at Holy Virgin Protection Church in Nyack, where he currently continues to teach Law of God classes to both elementary and high school students. In the past he has been a guest lecturer to the Holy Trinity Seminary community on the subject of the church calendar.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND