STM Press

St. Tikhon’s Monastery Press is guided by the desire to produce bound publications of the highest quality in service to the Orthodox Church in America. The Press considers the quality of its publication’s content, editing, and aesthetic to be of paramount importance. We are particularly focused on producing liturgical text and music, devotional material, historical studies, and monastic literature. Leading these efforts are the following:

First and foremost, every work that Saint Tikhon's Monastery Press undertakes is accomplished through the prayers and blessing of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon:

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Our Editor-In-Chief, visionary, and aid in countless ways is our beloved abbot, the Right Reverend Archimandrite Sergius:

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Our Editor for Liturgical Texts is the Reverend John Mikitish. Father John was ordained to the holy priesthood in 2016. He is a graduate of Yale University (B.A. summa cum laude, M.Phil) and St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary (M.Div.). He is a scholar of Church Slavonic literature and is working on completing his Ph.D. dissertation, also at Yale. Currently a stavropegial cleric, he works full time at the Chancery of the Orthodox Church in America. He has worked on numerous projects for St. Tikhon’s Monastery Press, including serving as co-editor for the popular Orthodox Christian Prayers. He also edits the Treasures of Orthodox Spirituality Series for St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press. His wife, Matushka Brenda, works for the OCA as Chancery Data Administrator. She frequently contributes her copy-editing and proofreading skills to both STM Press and SVS Press. They have two sons.

In the Liturgical Texts department, Father John is overseeing many current and future project, including:

1. Hieratikon, vol. 1 2nd edition 
2. The Great Books of Needs series
3. Psalter and Horologion
4. The Octoechos, a Menaion for the North American Saints, and texts for Holy Week
5. Texts for laity and private devotion: Orthodox Christian Canons and Prayers, and additional Akathists.

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Our Editor for Liturgical Music is Hamilton Provonsha. Hamilton studied jazz piano at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee, and serves as the full-time choir director at St John of the Ladder Orthodox Church (OCA) in Greenville, South Carolina (previously at Holy Ascension in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina). He has sung with St Tikhon’s Choir, King’s Counterpoint, Taylor Festival Choir, and Chicora Voices, and enjoys playing jazz whenever there’s a piano and an awkward social setting. He and his wife enjoy chatting over a cup of coffee or tea respectively and taking long walks outside. They are expecting their first child later this summer.

Currently, the department of liturgical music is working on the following projects:

1. Common Book of Church Hymns: Matins
2. Reviving work on the Saint Tikhon's Music Resource
3. 2026 Liturgical Rubrics
4. Common Book of Church Hymns: Baptism, Wedding, Funeral

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The Managing Editor for STM Press is the Reverend Mikel Hill. Father Mikel holds a bachelor's degree from Bowling Green State University, where he studied music history and composition. He is also a graduate of the Antiochian House of Studies and Saint Tikhon's Seminary. As the managing editor, his main task is to facilitate collaboration between editors, contributors, and production. In addition, he serves as Editor for non-liturgical publications, typesets all STM publications, and designs their covers. Outside the Press, Father Mikel is active as a priest, choir director, composer, and as a singer with PaTRAM, the Saint Tikhon Choir, and the Artefact Ensemble. He is also a scholar of late 19th and early 20th century sacred music in the United States, on which subject he is active as a writer and speaker. He lives at the monastery with his wife, Rachel—who works as a bookkeeper for the monastery—and their five children. They enjoy old books, fresh coffee, and occasional jaunts to England.

In order to help St. Tikhon's Monastery Press continue its mission, please consider underwriting the large expenses associated with editing and printing high quality publications. Please use the button below to donate through PayPal. If you wish to underwrite a particular publications, please make a note when donating. Thank you!

To submit a manuscript for review, please email: mikel.hill@stspress.com

To read about our commitment to printed, bound publications, see our article: "Why Print"